The left over portion of Chinese largest rocket which had been expected to land back into earth has finally dropped in the Indian Ocean on Sunday.
Thankfully, most of the components was destroyed upon re-entry into the atmosphere, thus bringing to an end days of speculation that the debris might hit human area.
According to Reuters, the coordinates given by the Chinese state media which cited the China Space Engineering Office puts the location of impact as the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago.
Chinese State media reported that parts of the rocket re-entered the atmosphere at about 10:24 a.m. Beijing time (0224 GMT) and landed at a location with the coordinates of longitude 72.47 degrees east and latitude 2.65 degrees north.
The rocket, which ferried a Chinese space station section into orbit, was earlier launched on 29 April.
China space engineering has come under heavy criticism especially from the US given that safety precautions were nor adhered to in building and deploying of the rocket to avert such an uncontrolled re-entering into the earth’s atmosphere.
China however insists the risk was low although the US Space Command simply said had “re-entered over the Arabian Peninsula”. It however did not confirm the landing point which was reported by Chinese media, saying instead that it was “unknown if the debris [had] impacted land or water”.
