Thursday, 5 March, 2026
Chinese rocket crashes into Indian Ocean after loosing control
By Basit Ansari
<p>China's Long March 5B rocket lost control and crashed back into Earth's atmosphere, landing perhaps close to Sarawak, a Malaysian state on Borneo. At 12:45 PM ET, the US Space Command confirmed the rocket's descent, however it is still unknown where its debris fell. China's Manned Space Agency claimed in a statement that was translated on Weibo that the rocket reentered close to the same place and that the majority of it burned up on the way down.</p>
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