China's Long March rocket stage has reentered Earth's atmosphere over the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, China's national space agency confirmed. China's Long March rocket stage has reentered Earth's atmosphere over the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, China's national space agency confirmedA massive 18-ton chunk of a Chinese rocket crashed back to earth tonight. That Long March 5B rocket carried the main module of Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, into orbit on April 29. The roughly 30-meter (100-foot) -long stage would be among the biggest space debris to fall to Earth. China's first space station, Tiangong-1, crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2016 after Beijing confirmed it had lost control.

Source: The Nation May 09, 2021 03:45 UTC