Long March 5B Yao-2 Launch Vehicle Launched
The Chinese Communist Party’s launch of the Long March 5B launch vehicle (Long March 5B) has reportedly gone out of control, and the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a statement saying that Space Command is up to speed on the Long March 5B and is tracking it online in a timely manner. Immediate monitoring shows that the rocket wreckage will rub shoulders with Taiwan at 10:28 p.m. Taiwan time this evening and 5:55 a.m. tomorrow (9). According to the latest forecast, it will fall to the ground at 11:43 a.m. on the 9th. The wreckage orbit landing point and the first photo of the flyby have been revealed.
Comprehensive foreign media reports, California-based, U.S. government-funded aerospace company (The Aerospace Corporation) in the official Twitter pointed out that the Long March rocket orbital inclination of 41.5 degrees, which means it may enter the atmosphere in Chicago, New York City, Rome or Beijing, as well as the southern hemisphere over New Zealand and Chile, the current projection is that in Africa Sudan in the northeast has a better chance of entering the atmosphere.
Aero-Pacific expects the Long March rocket wreckage to hit the ground at 3:43 a.m. UTC on the 9th (11:43 a.m. Taiwan time on the 9th), but the actual time of impact may vary due to a margin of error of plus or minus 16 hours; both the U.S. military and the Russian government are currently closely monitoring the wreckage’s movements.
Astronomer Gianluca Masi of the nonprofit organization Virtual Telescope captured the first photo of the Long March 5 wreckage in Italy. The sun was already below the horizon, but the sky was unusually bright as the rocket wreckage flew across the sky at great speed.
Astronomer Massey of the non-profit organization “Virtual Telescope” captured the first photo of the Long March 5 wreckage in Italy.
Taiwan’s Free Times reports that a simulated trajectory map from the real-time monitoring website “orbit.ing-now” shows that the wreckage of the Long March 5B remote 2 launch vehicle will pass over northern and southern Taiwan at 10:12 p.m. Taiwan time today and 5:55 a.m. tomorrow (9), respectively.
The 21-ton core section of the Long March 5B rocket carrying the space station’s “Tianhe core module” was found to have “fallen out of control” and is currently “tumbling” in space after being launched by the Chinese Communist Party from the Wenchang Spaceport in Hainan on April 29. tumbling” in space.
Technology news website Space News previously reported that the Long March 5B remote 2 launch vehicle carrying the Chinese Tiangong space station core module called “Tianhe” was launched on April 29, and 10 minutes after launch, the core module separated from the rocket and soon after “Tianhe” entered its intended orbit. Ten minutes after the launch, the core module separated from the rocket, and soon the “Tianhe” entered the scheduled orbit. But the core booster of the Long March 5B rocket is returning to Earth in an “unpredictable” and uncontrolled manner after reaching orbit.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a Defense Department press conference on June 6 that according to the latest estimates, the wreckage of the Chinese Long March rocket will crash back to Earth on the 8th and 9th. Austin said the U.S. military has no plans to shoot down the rocket and hopes it will land where it won’t hurt anyone, like the ocean or similar places.
According to information tweeted by Japanese amateur astronomy observers, the rocket’s core node is flashing regularly, indicating that it is tumbling, which also means that the core node is already in an uncontrolled state. The most likely scenario is that when the rocket segment of Long March 5B Yaoji returns to Earth, the debris remaining under the high temperature will fall into the ocean or uninhabited areas, however, it cannot be ruled out that it will fall into residential areas and cause damage to people and property.
Astrophysicist Wang Binwei, an assistant researcher at the National Museum of Natural Science in Taiwan, said in an interview with Free Asia that the Long March 5B can carry a weight of about 20 tons, and it is very irresponsible for the Chinese Communist Party to launch it without proper risk control. He compared it to a driver who should tie up the truck’s cargo before hitting the road to avoid hitting people with the emergency brake. Some rockets carrying nuclear-powered batteries dropped into space would pose a great danger to Earth if they crashed improperly during delivery.
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