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(5,719 posts)This was from a launch last year. It doesn't look like the Chinese give a shit.
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The odds of a piece of space debris falling back to Earth and striking a person are extremely low
. But it looks like a Chinese rocket nearly achieved the improbable.
Last week, China took a major step toward
its goal of completing its own space station by 2022 when its Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket successfully launched a prototype of Chinas new-generation manned spacecraft. By Monday, some people were talking about the rocket for a less celebratory reason.
In the re-entry
of one of the largest pieces of uncontrolled space debris ever to fall back on Earth, the rockets core stage reportedly plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the northwestern coast of Africa. Then later reports suggested that parts of it might have hit two villages in the West African country Côte d'Ivoire.
https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3084441/debris-chinese-heavy-lift-rocket-might-have-hit-cote-divoire-villages