The fall of the Chinese space missile out of control in the Arabian Sea

The fall of the Chinese missile out of control

How China lost its out of control missile control

While the Chinese rocket was rotating in orbit, its engines stopped, causing it to fall towards the ground due to gravity.

As it rotates in orbit, it approaches the earth due to gravity, until it reaches the atmosphere.

The Chinese Space Agency said that the debris of its out of control lost missile fell in the Indian Ocean on Sunday morning after most of its parts were burned as soon as it entered the Earth's atmosphere, ending days of speculation about the location of the fall of the missile.

The bulk of the missile crashed while entering the Earth's atmosphere, and the coordinates quoted by press reports from the Chinese Aerospace Engineering Office indicate that the remnants of the out of control missile landed in the Indian Ocean, west of the Maldives.

On Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that most of the missile debris will be burned upon entering the atmosphere and that it is highly unlikely to cause any harm, after the US military said that the US Space Command was following what it described as an uncontrolled entry of the missile through the atmosphere.

And in a tweet published Friday evening in the United States, the latest forecast from the Foundation's Center for Orbital Return and Debris Studies (CORDS) indicated that the location of the entry of the Long March 5B missile into the atmosphere will be near the North Island in New Zealand, but he cautioned that Entry is also possible anywhere along pathways covering vast areas of the world.

A Wandering Chinese missile is not the first time

This is not the first time that China has lost control of a spacecraft upon its return to Earth, in 2020 fragments of another Long March missile fell on towns in Ivory Coast, causing damage without causing human casualties.

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