Spain today closed its national airspace over Catalonia and three other regions as well a segment of a Long March 5B rocket is expected to fall to Earth. The way it will fall is uncontrollable, the fall will happen today or Saturday and no one yet knows exactly where it will happen.
“Due to the risk associated with the passage of the CZ-5B space object through the national airspace of Spain, flights have been completely banned from 09:38 am until 10:18 am in Catalonia and other areas,” reported by authorities via Twitter, according to Reuters.
It is noted that this is a large piece of Chinese space junk, weighing 23 tons and the height of a 10-story building.
THE missile is the one that launched the third and final segment of China’s new Tiangong space station on October 31. As with previous launches of the same heavy-lift rocket, China’s space agency did not conduct a controlled descent of the remaining portion of the rocket after it released its payload.
Although much of the rocket will burn up in the atmosphere by the time it reaches Earth, some of it will eventually -20% to 40% – is expected to fall into it, possibly into the sea which covers 70% of our planet. It is estimated that about 88% of the world’s population lives in the areas of possible fall, but experts nevertheless pointed out that the chances of someone being hit by the huge piece of junk are only six in 10 trillion.
Source: News Beast
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