On July 3, another Chinese rocket fell to Earth. But this one landed in the Pacific Ocean with very little splash. The Long March-2F rocket launched June 17 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. It carried the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and three Chinese astronauts to the country's new space station.

What happened to the Chinese rocket 2021?

Debris from a large Chinese rocket landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives early Sunday morning, China's space administration announced. It said most of the debris had burned up on re-entry. It was not immediately clear whether any of what remained had landed on any of the Maldives's 1,192 islands.

Where is the Chinese rocket now?

"The empty rocket body is now in an elliptical orbit around Earth where it is being dragged toward an uncontrolled re-entry." The empty core stage has been losing altitude since last week, but the speed of its orbital decay remains uncertain due to unpredictable atmospheric variables.