A Chinese rocket booster weighing approximately four tons reentered the Earth's atmosphere on March 8 over Texas at 17,000 mph and ultimately disintegrated.
The space junk, as NORAD described it, was in a low orbit before making its descent back to Earth, and military officials said the debris field could stretch for hundreds of miles.
A Long March-5B Y2 rocket blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on April 29, 2021, in Wenchang, Hainan province, China.
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