Category: Debris

US Tracking Uncontrolled China Rocket Debris, Predicted to Reenter Atmosphere in Days

The U.S. Space Command is tracking uncontrolled debris from a Chinese rocket that sent part of a planned space station into orbit last week, the White House said on May 5. The debris comes from the Long March 5B rocket launched on April 29 to deliver a new 22.5-tonne module for China’s Tianhe space station….


Rocket Debris Lights Up Skies Over the Pacific Northwest

SEATTLE—Burning debris from a rocket lit up Pacific Northwest skies Thursday night, the National Weather Service in Seattle said. “The widely reported bright objects in the sky were debris from a Falcon 9 rocket 2nd stage that did not successfully have a deorbit burn,” the service said in a tweet about the astral occurrence that…


Debris Falls From Plane During Emergency Landing Near Denver

Debris from a United Airlines plane fell onto Denver suburbs during an emergency landing on Saturday after one of the plane’s engines suffered a catastrophic failure and rained pieces of the engine casing on a neighborhood where it narrowly missed a home. The plane landed safely, and nobody aboard or on the ground was reported…