So all the debris landed in Chinese territorial waters, everything is fine, nothing to see here.
Spent Chinese rocket booster splashes down over Southeast Asia
Debris leftover from China's Long March 5B rocket has reportedly crashed down into the sea off the Philippines, and scattered on land by the borders of Indonesia and Malaysia. The 23-ton piece of junk measured 53.6 metres in length, and was a booster component of the China National Space Administration's (CNSA) most advanced …
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Tuesday 2nd August 2022 08:16 GMT My-Handle
Re: HOW DARE THE CHINESE... NASA's exploding Space Shuttles fell to earth Predictably
I'm going to pretend that you're arguing in good faith for a moment...
Do you think that the issue here might be less about littering and more about the possibility of fragments of a 20+ tonne rocket booster dropping on someone's head at terminal velocity?
Do you think at all before posting?
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Tuesday 2nd August 2022 14:40 GMT bombastic bob
Re: HOW DARE THE CHINESE... NASA's exploding Space Shuttles fell to earth Predictably
CCP does not care about anything except the CCP (and world domination). I think we can expect them to behave like BAD NEIGHBORS, especially if letting us know about falling debris would in ANY way cause them to look less than perfect by anyone's observation.
Either that or it was aimed at Taiwan and they missed...
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Tuesday 2nd August 2022 08:20 GMT My-Handle
Re: Should I be worried or relieved?
As far as I understand it, they can track it in orbit reasonably well, mostly because there aren't many external forces acting on debris. This makes it's orbital track fairly predictable. Once it enters into the atmosphere, aerodynamics make it's path more chaotic. If the object is irregularly shaped and / or tumbling, or if it starts breaking up, it's path can get extremely chaotic very quickly, making it nearly impossible to accurately predict where it'll eventually come down.