{"id":142994,"date":"2022-07-28T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/uncontrolled-debris-from-massive-chinese-booster-rocket-could-hit-earth-within-days"},"modified":"2022-07-28T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:22:18","slug":"uncontrolled-debris-from-massive-chinese-booster-rocket-could-hit-earth-within-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/uncontrolled-debris-from-massive-chinese-booster-rocket-could-hit-earth-within-days","title":{"rendered":"Uncontrolled debris from massive Chinese booster rocket could hit Earth within days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uncontrolled-debris-from-massive-chinese-booster-rocket-could-hit-earth-within-days2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China decided not to guide the booster back through the atmosphere and it\u2019s not clear exactly when or where it will come down to Earth. While it will largely burn up on return, there remains a slight risk of fragments causing damage or casualties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aerospace.org\/article\/aerospace-experts-tracking-massive-uncontrolled-reentry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to researchers at The Aerospace Corporation<\/a> \u201cthere is a non-zero probability of the surviving debris landing in a populated area\u2014over 88 percent of the world\u2019s population lives under the reentry\u2019s potential debris footprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While China is not alone in such practices, the size of the Long March rocket stage has drawn particular scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China decided not to guide the booster back through the atmosphere and it\u2019s not clear exactly when or where it will come down to Earth. While it will largely burn up on return, there remains a slight risk of fragments causing damage or casualties. According to researchers at The Aerospace Corporation \u201cthere is a non-zero [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}