A four-tonne piece of Chinese space junk made an uncontrolled free fall to Earth last week, before burning up in the earth's atmosphere.
On June 23, the rocket called Y-64, took off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in central China and successfully deployed three spy satellites into orbit.
The spy satellites were targeted over the South China Sea, astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told USNI News. Like most satellites after dropping off their payload, the second stage becomes space junk which can slowly circle the planet for years before plunging to Earth.Scientists have called for a binding treaty to protect Earth’s orbit from space debris
While US officials are still determining if any debris has hit the ground, Chinese officials have not acknowledged the incident at the time of writing.Nasa accused Beijing last year of ‘failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris’ after parts of a Chinese rocket landed in the Indian Ocean.The space debris incident follows the US shooting down a
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