CHINA-SPACE: LONG MARCH 5B ROCKET RE-ENTERS EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE AND CRASHES INTO WATERS NEAR MALDIVES ISLANDS
The China Manned Space Engineering Office announced (May 9) that the last stage of the Long March 5B Yao-2 carrier rocket had reentered the atmosphere at 10:24 and the landing area was at 72.47° east longitude and north latitude. In the surrounding sea area of 2.65°. It said most of the devices are ablated and destroyed during re-entry into the atmosphere. Reuters said that the wreckage of China's largest rocket crashed into the waters west of the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean on May 9. The US Space Command confirmed that China's "Long March-5B" rocket re-entered the atmosphere over the Arabian Peninsula, but said that it is still unclear whether the rocket's debris hit the land or the sea.
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