The stage of the Chinese Long March 5B rocket which on 29 April brought the first module of the Tiangong space station into orbit is in uncontrolled fall towards the Earth.
The news, reported by various international sites, was confirmed to ANSA by Luciano Anselmo, of the Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the National Research Council (Isti-Cnr) of Pisa.
“This is the second time this has happened with this version of the rocket. The first - Anselmo observes - was in 2020, when the fragments had fallen on some villages in West Africa ", but then the news had passed almost unnoticed due to the emergency of the Covid-19 pandemic.
