A great expectation is generating the trip of the remains of the projector of the cohete chino Long March 5b will enter the earth’s atmosphere sometime this weekendwith a reentry window between 8:53 p.m. on Saturday and 12:53 p.m. on Sunday Spanish time. From here you can follow live.
The different projected trajectories, according to the calculations of the experts based on observations and mathematical models, indicate that the remains of the vehicle, in the event that it does not completely disintegrate in the atmosphere -weighs 20 tons and it is estimated that nine of them can pass through in the form of debris-, they have very likely to fall on the ocean, leaving at least the possibility that it will do so on land.
But in the remote case that he did it on land, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, France, Bulgaria, Greece and Maltawould be the countries that would potentially be threatened by a landing that, even so, experts indicate, does not pose any danger to citizens.
Possible trajectories in his passage through Spain
According to the map, until three orbits are the most likely to be made by the Chinese rocket over Spain and Portugall. The duration of the trip through the Iberian Peninsula, taking into account that the rocket travels without control at a speed of 28,000 kilometers per hour, it is a minute and a half.
The first path joins the Ribera del Duero with the Ebro Delta on a route that crosses the central provinces of Castilla y León and Aragón.
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The second route has extremes in its passage through the peninsula, the south of Catalonia, on the one hand, and the mouth of the Tagus, on the other, crossing the center of Spain.
The third trajectory also connects the Atlantic -southeast of Portugal- and the Mediterranean -Almería- also passing through the Andalusian provinces of Huelva, Seville, Córdoba and Granada.