A massive booster from a Chinese rocket 🚀 is set to begin an uncontrolled fall from space 👾 Saturday and the big questions are how much debris will make it through the atmosphere and where that debris could land. But don't lose sleep over it.
Jul. 29, 2022, 10:42 a.m.
The booster is part of a Long March 5B rocket used to send a module into orbit on July 24 for China’s Tiangong space station.the booster laps around the planet before falling to Earth and, because it’s more than 100 feet long and weighs more than 22 tons, it’s possible up to 9 tons of material could survive the fall and make it to the ground.
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