China announced this week that it has already completed its space station, Tiangong (which in Mandarin means Heavenly Palace), but a few hours later, an alert from the Space Surveillance and Tracking Operations Centers (EU SST) warned that one of the components of the rocket was going to make an uncontrolled impact on Earth this Friday.
An alert that has caused the temporary closure of the airports of Catalonia and Ibiza, since part of Spain is on the route that the rocket is going to follow.
As detailed by the European organization EU SST, the fragment they have been monitoring is a large space object called CZ-5B (2022-143B) that was launched on October 31, and
the last update estimated the time of the fall at 8:50 this Friday with a margin of error of 31 minutes
, in a strip that included part of the Iberian Peninsula.
However, it has not yet been reported whether and where the fragment had already fallen.
It is the core stage of the rocket that launched the Mengtian laboratory, the third module of the Chinese space station, into orbit. this November 4.
The new module, with a length of 17.8 meters and a diameter of 4.2 meters, weighed around 23.3 tons at the time of launch, EFE reported this week.
China continues to progress in its space program by leaps and bounds, but following procedures that the United States has described as irresponsible on several occasions, there are already several alerts due to the space fall of large components that have occurred as it was launching at a rapid pace the phases of your space home.
China's Manned Mission Space Agency (AMTS).
announced that the peration to assemble this laboratory in the rest of the large space structure was successfully completed at 9:32 local time this Thursday (01:32 GMT).
The Chinese station will weigh about 70 tons and is expected to operate for about 15 years orbiting about 400 kilometers from the Earth's surface.
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