The coordinates put the point of impact in the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago. [Reuters]Remnants of China's biggest rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with the bulk of its components destroyed upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, according to Chinese state media, ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit. The coordinates put the point of impact in the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago. Most of the debris was burnt up in the atmosphere, the China Manned Space Engineering Office said. "It makes the Chinese rocket designers look lazy that they didn't address this," said McDowell, a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Source: Standard Digital May 09, 2021 03:33 UTC