A Chinese Rocket Is Wildly Careening Toward Earth This Weekend

a reply to: Bigburgh

Don't know, honestly.

I'm just trying to report what I'm seeing.

The CNSA/CMS official account on Weibo confirms that #LongMarch5 CZ5B booster has reentered at 02:24 UTC, May 9. The location of the reentry is 72.47°E, 2.65°N. weibo.com... The CMS website appears to be down, though.

twitter rumour
twitter.com...

so about 45minutes ago!

a reply to: Bigburgh

a reply to: Agit8dChop

What? that's between Greenland and Sweden! That's above the max obit azimuth.

Did you miss a minus sign in there somewhere?

ETA - Sorry, I reversed my norths and easts...my mistake.

It crashed over The Maldives.

Feels a bit anticlimactic.

Space trak confirms the rocket is down.

Would be something if the Rocket Debris went down in maybe the same location as MH370. Wasn't the Maldives mention on the possible location of MH370?

originally posted by: BrokenCircles
Feels a bit anticlimactic.

That's why I saw a few posts earlier...typed "Must be a Slow News Day", and went away till now. What were people expecting?

a reply to: carewemust

It's alright. It was all about the journey, not the destination.



I did learn a thing or two.

originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Maybe it will fall in the area where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing. Oh man the threads would be off the hook if that happened.

Whoa! Let's all hope I'm not making predictions now.

I hope some footage comes from the Maldives.. or ships at sea..

It's been fun! Thanks.. this is why I love this site! Friends here didn't even know it was coming down!

Disappointing...my stuff was wrong! I guess it was just predicting the algorithm of the orbit.

I think the locations were accurate, but the actual de-orbit was wrong.

Gosh, sorry about that.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

nah - good stuff, keep it up - ignore the sniping!
post sources.. screenshots.. get people involved.. its the joy of this place!
you're alright I guess ... for an internet conspiracy theorist

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk
No worries.
Appreciate your input!

THANKS CHINA FOR THE SHOW!!🤗🙌🚀🚀🚀

Wait a minute!

The original prediction (not mine) was 14:06Z 2,000 nm SW of the Maldives.

Actual was 02:24Z...12 hours different than predicted. That's 8.2 orbits different!

It couldn't have crashed anywhere near the Maldives!!! It's not possible!

Something is not right here!

idk if anyone wants to know this or not, but since I'm still here....

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