Space.com
A 19.6-ton (17,800 kilograms) Chinese rocket slammed into our planet today (May 11).
The bulky Long March 5B became the heaviest orbiting thing to fall uncontrolled to Earth in nearly three decades, according to Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astrophysicist and orbital object tracker. The last time a heavier object had an uncontrolled entry was 1991, when the 43-ton (39,000 kg) Salyut-7 Soviet space station reentered the atmosphere over Argentina, McDowell wrote on Twitter. more
Karma fails again.
Kind of a shame it missed Hollywood.
Well it looks like they ave the trajectory down now they just need to work on the elevation.
The Chinese half-assed it, just like everything else, except for treachery ,they got that down pat.
Since most space junk falls in the ocean, most people give it no thought. But, I was driving a destroyer through the South Pacific, standing on the port bridge wing, looking aft, when a huge space junk fireball went across our stern. Sounded like a near miss with a high speed freight train.
I’m old enough to remember when Skylab was falling, and falling and falling and everyone was loosing their collective minds.
I suppose 43 tons falling from the sky would have been MSM news if there was an angle to blame Trump for it. The world we live in today.
Chinese seem to operate on the theme of “we build junk that will fail, and it’s your problem now.”
China is the world’s litterbug, the world’s leaking septic tank, the world’s jerk-neighbor-next-door.
If you elect to buy Chinese, it’s your fault.
Biden’s campaign?
Another ‘long march’ to an ‘exchange’ of something not-so-good. http://www.shine.cn/news/metro/2005158141/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFCU_Ld9snU
Probably filled with a bio-weapon virus.
where did it land?
Asking for a friend.
…It was a COVID death, and would still orbit today if President Trump hadn’t relaxed the quarantine 2 early, so let us take a moment to mourn this innocent Chinese victim of Trumps racism by impeaching him immediately.
…oh, and you’re all on lockdown until Hillary is president.
…Deplorables…
It was a Chinese wrecking ball that missed.
Powered by the stationary bike from Gilligan’s Island and vacuum tubes. I guess the Chinamen didn’t steal ALL of the secrets. They should ask Ole Syph Clinton for at least part of the money back
Pro tip: Don’t buy Harbor Freight rockets.
too bad it wasn’t mistaken for a missile attack against us
I never knew Hilary was an astronaut, shocked she passed the sobriety tests.
So far COVID-19 is the longest that something made in China has ever lasted!