{"id":105994,"date":"2021-05-10T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=105994"},"modified":"2021-05-10T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:01:19","slug":"uncontrolled-re-entry-of-chinas-long-march-5b-rocket-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uncontrolled-re-entry-of-chinas-long-march-5b-rocket-debris\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncontrolled Re-entry of China&#8217;s Long March 5B Rocket Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The debris from a Chinese Long March 5B rocket made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and fell into the waters of the Indian Ocean west of the Maldives.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Long March 5B Rocket:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Long March 5B rocket<\/strong> is China\u2019s largest rocket. It was launched into space in April 2021 for putting into orbit a core module named <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tianhe-chinese-space-station-core-module\/\">Tianhe<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tianhe<\/strong> is one of the core modules of China\u2019s permanent space station. Tiangong Space Station is its name.<\/li>\n<li>This Chinese space station will only be the 2nd after the International Space Station (ISS). Its lifespan will be\u00a010 years but could last 15 years, or until 2037.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Why did re-entry of Long March 5B Rocket raise concerns?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>After the launch of a rocket, <\/strong>its discarded booster stages re-enter the atmosphere soon after liftoff. Then, they harmlessly fall into the ocean as a standard practice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>However, in this case,<\/strong> a large part of the rocket went into orbit along with the section of the under-construction space station that it was carrying.<\/li>\n<li><strong>While in orbit,<\/strong> this vehicle kept rubbing against the air at the top of the atmosphere and the resulting friction caused it to start losing altitude.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This resulted in the Long March 5B rocket\u2019s <\/strong>uncontrolled re-entry back to the Earth inevitable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Has out of control crashes happened before?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the 4th largest uncontrolled reentry of debris into the atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In March 2021, a SpaceX rocket<\/strong> stage made an uncontrolled landing on a farm in the US. But this happened due to a malfunction in the engine tasked to bring it down and not by choice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1979, when the NASA space station Skylab<\/strong> was brought down, some debris ended up in Australia leading to an apology from the then-US President.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1978, <\/strong>when a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite crashed in Canada, Russia was forced to bear a part of the expense gone into cleaning the radioactive debris.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GL18ILNVH.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Vkt2xTRibE\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/neo-01-chinese-robot-prototype-to-clear-space-debris\/\">&#8220;NEO-01&#8221; &#8211; Chinese robot prototype to clear space debris<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;&#8220;NEO-01&#8221; &#8211; Chinese robot prototype to clear space debris&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/neo-01-chinese-robot-prototype-to-clear-space-debris\/embed\/#?secret=9MxSw4caD5#?secret=Vkt2xTRibE\" data-secret=\"Vkt2xTRibE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The debris from a Chinese Long March 5B rocket made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and fell into the waters of the Indian Ocean west of the Maldives. About Long March 5B Rocket: The Long March 5B rocket is China\u2019s largest rocket. It was launched into space in April&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uncontrolled-re-entry-of-chinas-long-march-5b-rocket-debris\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncontrolled Re-entry of China&#8217;s Long March 5B Rocket Debris<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8043,1566,1738,9],"tags":[1425],"class_list":["post-105994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-cat","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700799197,"cached_date":1704881344},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}