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by: Up Yours California - Wed, 3 Apr 2024 03:53 UTC

A big piece of Chinese space junk crashed to Earth over Southern
California early Tuesday morning (April 2), putting on quite a show for
observers in the Golden State.

The fall created a blazing fireball witnessed by people from the
Sacramento area all the way down to San Diego, according to the American
Meteor Society (AMS). As of Tuesday afternoon, 81 people had reported
sightings of the event to the AMS.

The hunk of space debris was the orbital module of China's Shenzhou 15
spacecraft, according to astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan
McDowell. It had been up there for a while; Shenzhou 15 launched three
astronauts to the nation's Tiangong space station in November 2022.

The Shenzhou orbital module, which weighs about 3,300 pounds (1,500
kilograms), provides extra room for astronauts and science experiments
in space. It's not designed to come back to Earth safely at the end of
its mission; the Shenzhou reentry module is built to do that, with
astronauts on board.

Of course, most folks who saw the fireball streak across the sky around
1:40 a.m. local California time (4:40 a.m. EDT; 0840 GMT) didn't know
what it was.

The burning debris couldn't have been the Falcon 9's first stage; that
piece of hardware lands safely after launch and is reused. But the
workhorse rocket's upper stage is disposable.

The Shenzhou 15 orbital module was hardly the first big piece of Chinese
space junk to crash back to Earth in dramatic fashion, nor was it the
biggest.

The 23-ton (21-metric-ton) core stage of the nation's powerful Long
March 5B rocket, whose launches helped build Tiangong, routinely fall to
Earth in an uncontrolled fashion.

These debris crashes have drawn criticism from a variety of people in
the space community, including the heads of NASA and the European Space
Agency, who have decried them as irresponsible and potentially
dangerous.

https://www.space.com/chinese-space-junk-fall-fireball-shenzhou-15

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