BEIJING, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Chinese authorities warned that debris from a rocket would fall into an area in the South China Sea on Tuesday morning, after the launch of a new space vehicle eleven days earlier.
For the sixth time since 2016, Beijing launched a Long March 5 rocket earlier this month, a variant of which was also used for exploration of the planet Mars.
A previous launch, carried out in 2021, caused concern due to uncertainty over where the rocket debris would land. In 2020, debris from a rocket fell against buildings in Ivory Coast. (Reporting Ryan Woo; French version Jean Terzian)
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