Debris from Chinese rocket falls to earth

Debris from a rocket that boosted part of China’s new space station into orbit has fallen into the sea in the Philippines.

As per the China's space agency, the Chinese rocket debris has crashed to Earth over the Sulu Sea - east of the Philippine Island of Palawan in the north Pacific.

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Debris from a rocket that boosted part of China’s new space station into orbit has fallen into the sea in the Philippines.

As per the China's space agency, the Chinese rocket debris has crashed to Earth over the Sulu Sea - east of the Philippine Island of Palawan in the north Pacific.

In July 2022, China had launched the Long March 5B rocket which carried a lab module to the Tiangong station.

This rocket was used to launch the second of three modules China needed to complete its new Tiangong space station.

While fulfilling its objective in space, the booster rocket made an uncontrolled return.

Tiangong is China's new space station.
In May 2021, China launched Tianhe, the first of the orbiting space station's three modules.
The country aims to finish building the station by the end of 2022.
In June 2021, China had launched three astronauts into orbit to begin occupation of the country's new space station.
Tiangong will be much smaller than the International Space Station (ISS), with only three modules compared with 16 modules on the ISS.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.
Its first component launched into orbit in 1998, and the ISS is now the largest human-made body in low Earth orbit.
It circles the Earth in roughly 92 minutes and completes 15.5 orbits per day.
The ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and other fields.
Five different space agencies representing 15 countries built the $100-billion International Space Station and continue to operate it today.
The ISS programme is a joint project between five participating space agencies:

Its ownership and use has been established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements.
It is expected to operate until 2030.
NASA plans to decommission it in 2031.