The European Space Agency has confirmed China's Long March 5B rocket – which was launched into the skies with much fanfare a mere week ago – has dropped into low Earth orbit. The Long March 5B rocket carrying a module for a Chinese space station lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan province. "This is the second launch of this rocket; the debris in Ivory Coast last year was from the previous launch, i.e. The module was propelled by a powerful Long March 5B rocket, the second stage of which is currently descending Earthward. It successfully propelled the Tianhe core module for China's space station into orbit.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 08, 2021 21:22 UTC