Chinese Rockets : 2 "mistakes" in a row?

[rockcasbah]

That doesn't sound like the Chinese to me.

Space junk aggression?

 

[rockcasbah]

The latest prediction from the Aerospace Corporation is that the rocket will crash down in Sudan at around 11:45 p.m. ET Saturday.

But its confidence interval is plus or minus 16 hours — leaving open a huge window of the planet where the object might land. There are also other variables.

Some experts say this is the latest example of China being irresponsible with its spacecraft.

A year ago, another Chinese rocket piece that had carried another part for the space station tumbled uncontrolled over New York and Los Angeles before smashing into Ivory Coast, in West Africa, where it damaged buildings but caused no reported injuries.

Last month's launch was the first of 11 such missions planned by China to build the new space station.

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[Biggs_Darklighter]

People worry about the dumbest shit sometimes.

 

[phrodeau]

It isn’t easy. It actually is rocket science.

 

[rockcasbah]

Where it will hit “cannot be pinpointed until within hours of its reentry,” the Pentagon said in a statement earlier this week.

I wonder how it will be spun as a story if it hits the USA.

 

[phrodeau]

I wonder how it will be spun as a story if it hits the USA.

Maybe it’ll hit that place where they’re looking for bamboo ballots.

 

[LupusDei]

They have long history of not caring about where their junk falls, especially when it's falling back to their own territory. This is just more of the same, just larger, higher.

 

[LupusDei]

Long March 5B falls into Indian Ocean after world follows rocket reentry

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Everybody done panicking over nothing now? Jeebus.