BEIJING – The debris of the last stage of the Long March-5B Y2 carrier rocket reentered the atmosphere at 10:24 am on Sunday (Beijing Time), most of which already burned up, the China Manned Space Agency said.
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The vast majority of the debris burned up during the reentry, while the rest fell into the sea, said the CMSA.
The Long March-5B Y2 rocket, carrying the Tianhe module, the first and core module for the construction of China's space station, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan on April 29.
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