“Excuse me-update? THIS IS AN UPDATE? Why am I just hearing about this,” questioned another. “There’s a what plummeting toward who?!?!” said a frazzled viewer. Her viewers panicked, of course, prompting her to give further explanation and reassure her followers. “I’m sorry WHAT ROCKET,” wrote one bewildered user. “Everybody cross your fingers.”īut her viewers were not at ease, despite her reassurance. “The Earth is 70% water so hopefully it’ll land in the ocean,” she said in one clip with 4.1 million views. “So, should we take available measures to eliminate casualty risks? I think the answer should be yes.”Īs for this impending rocket, news even touched down on TikTok, where content creator, TV host and former MIT engineer Emily Calandrelli, known as TheSpaceGal, assured her followers that there is a low probability the debris will hit update weds 11am PT ♬ original sound – The Space Gal “It’s a statistically low risk, but it’s not negligible, and it’s increasing - and it’s totally avoidable,” Michael Byers, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia, told the Verge, speaking on the study. TikTok/thespacegalĮxperts suspect more space debris will collide with Earth, estimating a 10% risk that a piece of space junk will kill someone on the ground within 10 years. Calandrelli explained to her followers why the US doesn’t know where the rocket will land. Experts warn of another Chinese rocket headed for an uncontrollable crash landing on Earth. Thankfully, it landed in the Indian Ocean, but that won’t always be the case in the future. Last year, debris from a Chinese rocket crash landed on Earth, striking fear in everyone below. While it’s startling news, it isn’t the first time a rocket has uncontrollably re-entered our atmosphere - and it won’t be the last. The 23-ton rocket, the Long March 5B, is set to make an uncontrolled re-entry, although it is unclear where it will land. You heard that right, Chinese space debris is hurtling toward our planet and could touch down as soon as Saturday, experts warn.Īccording to the Aerospace Corporation - a space research center that tracks debris re-entering our atmosphere - China launched the rocket earlier this week under the mission name Wentian. Public warned after ‘hazardous’ possible spacecraft washes up on beachĭon’t look up - a rocket is heading for Earth. Russia’s first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failureĪ rocket with a lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years SpaceX ordered to make dozens of fixes after FAA probes Starship explosion
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