![]() "So There isn't really a direct legal way to control what's going on on an international level."įor their part, neither China's national space agencies nor any other official government body has issued a response to The Aerospace Corporation's regular tracking of and communications about falling Long March 5B rocket bodies. "And the reality is there aren't any real laws, treaties, internationally that govern what you're allowed to do in terms of reentry," Sorge said. Marlon Sorge, Executive Director for The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies ( CORDS), said during today's briefing that international laws are unclear when it comes to these types of reentries. See China's huge uncontrolled rocket debris fall from space in fiery skywatcher videosĪs more of these uncontrolled Chinese reentries occur, more and more voices are calling for the establishment of international laws or norms to prevent such incidents from happening. 25-ton Chinese rocket debris crashes to Earth over Indian Ocean China launches final module to complete Tiangong space station (video) But the Long March 5B core stage reaches orbit, and China lets it stay up until drag brings it down in an uncontrolled fashion.) (Most rockets are designed such that their core stages ditch into the ocean or over unoccupied land shortly after liftoff, or come back to Earth for safe landings, in the case of SpaceX vehicles. And in 2020, after the rocket's debut launch, pieces of the vehicle's core stage reportedly hit the ground in Ivory Coast. Another Long March 5B fell into the Indian Ocean in April 2021 after China's space agency did not perform a controlled deorbit. In July, between 5.5 tons to 9.9 tons (5 to 9 metric tons) of another Long March 5B crashed into the Indian Ocean after surviving the fall through Earth's atmosphere. This is far from the first of such incidents. ![]() (Image credit: The Aerospace Corporation) Areas not under the lines are not exposed to the debris. ![]() Possible reentry locations lie anywhere along the blue and yellow ground tracks. ![]() A visualization of the possible tracks the falling Long March 5B rocket body could take. ![]()
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