A piece of Chinese space junk that reentered the earth’s atmosphere last week disintegrated over Texas, according to reports.
U.S. Naval Institute News reported that a second stage booster from a Chinese rocket that launched on June 23, 2022, and placed three military surveillance satellites into orbit burned up over the Lone Star State on March 8.
The missile was a Long March rocket, and its four-ton component that was floating in orbit reentered the atmosphere at 17,000 mph before disintegrating, defense officials told the publication.
The space junk, as NORAD described it, was in a low orbit before making its descent back to earth, and military officials said the debris field could stretch for hundreds of miles.
U.S. Space Command confirmed with USNI that the People’s Republic of China CZ-2D Rocket Body reentered the Earth’s atmosphere over the southern region of the continent at about 8:30 p.m. MST.
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