China Rocket: China recently took inspiration from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and sent one of its rockets into space which has broken into 300 pieces. Now it has become space junk. US Space Command (USSPACECOM) said that after the success of 18 Qianfan satellites, China’s Long March 6A rocket has broken into pieces. It is now revolving in more than 300 pieces in the low Earth orbit of the Earth. Let us tell you that on Tuesday, the Long March 6A rocket was launched with satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province of North China.
The rocket had reached 800 km
According to the information, this rocket of China had reached about 800 km with the satellites. This satellite was designed by innovation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai.
No danger!
#USSPACECOM statement on the break-up of a Chinese Long March 6A rocket: pic.twitter.com/Kf5cz0iZky
— US Space Command (@US_SpaceCom) August 8, 2024
USSPACECOM said through a post on X that the breakup of the Long March 6A rocket has been confirmed on 6 August 2024. It is present in the lower orbit of the Earth along with more than 300 debris. At the same time, there is no danger from this and the space domain is still safe.
How is China’s rocket?
For your information, let us tell you that China started the Qianfan mega project in 2023 to provide better communication services in the country. At the same time, the Qianfan network built by Shanghai-based company Spacecell has the capacity to establish a network of more than 15,000 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) wide-screen multimedia satellites in the long term.
Out of this, the company is going to launch about 108 satellites in 2024. At the same time, the company is preparing to launch about 648 satellites by the end of 2025. At the same time, let us tell you that SpaceX’s Starlink has already installed more than 6 thousand satellites in space. Also, it has more than 3 million customers in 100 countries.
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