Rocket debris fell over Japan Wednesday night in another show of China's increasing space presence. Video footage emerged on social media depicting what many initially thought was a meteorite falling.
Video footage emerged on social media depicting what many thought was a meteorite falling over Okinawa, Japan. Since then, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Ishigaki branch confirmed to the Japan Times that it was debris.
"The slow speed and the way the light moved — threads of lights moving in parallel — looked exactly like the atmospheric entry of debris from a rocket," a NAOJ official said on condition of anonymity."It is possible that [it was] debris from a rocket that was launched by China in November.
Burning objects of unknown origin flew in the sky over Japan. On Wednesday evening, they were spotted in Okinawa Prefecture, according to local TV channel TBS. pic.twitter.com/A9CuJm1j7POn Wednesday, Xinhua reported a"reusable experimental spacecraft" landed in northwest China after"276 days of in-orbit operation." The mission was described as an"important breakthrough in China's research on reusable spacecraft technologies.
In July, China successfully docked its Wentian space station module after the 21-ton Long March 5B rocket sent it to space, marking the third time China has sent rocket debris free-falling down to Earth, with one rocket in 2021 ending up in the Indian Ocean and another rocket in 2020 falling into the Atlantic Ocean.
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