A massive 18-ton chunk of a Chinese rocket is set to crash back to earth tonight, with a Russian space agency predicting it will re-enter the atmosphere near Indonesia. A Long March-5B rocket launched the first module of China's new space station into Eart orbit on April 29. A massive 18-ton chunk of a Chinese rocket is set to crash back to earth tonight, with a Russian space agency predicting it will re-enter the atmosphere near Indonesia. The roughly 30-meter (100-foot) -long stage would be among the biggest space debris to fall to Earth. China's first space station, Tiangong-1, crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2016 after Beijing confirmed it had lost control.

Source: Daily Mail May 08, 2021 10:09 UTC