Concerns remain about China's rocket, which is in temporary orbit out of control.Concerns have been raised about uncertainty about the Long March-5B rocket's entry into the Earth's atmosphere and where it could land. Experts say this will be one of the most powerful rocket launches without external control. The conclusion is that the rocket may land on the ground by this weekend.
The U.S. Department of Defense said it was working to determine the rocket's trajectory. The U.S. space command said in a statement that the rocket's ground entry would be by May 8 and that it was unclear in which parts of the rocket's heavy debris it would land.The space command said the rocket's entry point could only be determined hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere, and that the rocket's trajectory began to follow from May 4.
According to the Fox News website, the object, which is about 100 feet in size, orbits the earth every 90 minutes and is seen in the skies north of New York, Beijing and New Zealand.Jonathan McDonald, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, said the last time China's Long March - 5B rocket launch ended in a series of debris floating in the sky and damaging many buildings.
Jonathan says that about 70 percent of the Earth's oceans reduce the risk of a rocket crash into populated areas.He added that the rocket crash, caused by China's deliberate inattention, could result in a plane crash extending over 100 miles. Jonathan is of the opinion that it is not appropriate to allow objects weighing more than ten tons to fall to the ground without external control. The Long March 5B weighs 21 tons.
The rocket, which is currently returning to Earth, was launched in 2020 as part of 11 missions related to the construction of China's space station.China's deliberate lack of attention has also been cited as part of the ongoing competition between various world powers for space domination. Construction of China's space station is expected to be completed by 2022.