Update #4 - Winner 🏆
Congratulations to @g7izu for correctly guessing the landing spot.
Despite a scare over Spain's airspace, and the rocket breaking up upon reentry, it landed harmlessly in the waters off the coast of Mexico.
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Update #4 - Winner 🏆
Congratulations to @g7izu for correctly guessing the landing spot.
Despite a scare over Spain's airspace, and the rocket breaking up upon reentry, it landed harmlessly in the waters off the coast of Mexico.
Thank you all for playing
#CZ5B#LongMarch5B
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The USSPACECOM statement about a double reentry probably implies that the tumbling rocket stage broke into two major pieces in the early stages of reentry. The red line joins the two estimated reentry locations; some debris could have made it to Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca
Tweeted this before but not sure it got through. There was a second LM-5B reentry,5 minutes after the first. Did it break in two? (FYI, Space Command’s “Area of Responsibility” is 100 km above mean sea level and up.)
#USSPACECOM can confirm a second atmospheric reentry correlated with the #PRC’s Long March 5B #CZ5B as it exited the #USSPACECOM Area of Responsibility over the Northeast Pacific Ocean region at 4:06am MDT/10:06 UTC on Nov. 4.
#USSPACECOM can confirm the People’s Republic of China Long March 5B #CZ5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere over the south-central Pacific Ocean at 4:01am MDT/10:01 UTC on 11/4. For details on the uncontrolled reentry’s impact location, we once again refer you to the #PRC.
RT @Josep_Trigo: Parece que esto iba en serio, fijaros como se ha vaciado el espacio aéreo en la trayectoria de reentrada del #CZ5B.
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