It’s too early to know when or where the rocket core stage might crash, but it could happen within a week.
and the other the discarded core stage. Astronomer Jonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics expects the stage to reenter Earth’s atmosphere within a week or so.
“Unfortunately we can’t predict when or where,” he explained to me in an email. “Such a large rocket stage should not be left in orbit to make an uncontrolled reentry; the risk to the public is not huge, but it is larger than I am comfortable with.
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