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Beijing: China has launched a rocket into space similar to Starlink launched by Elon Musk's giant company Tesla. But while returning to Earth, the rocket broke into 300 pieces and is becoming space junk.
The US Space Command (usspacecom) today said that the Chinese Long March 6 rocket crashed after successfully launching 18 Qiang-Feng satellites. Its 300 pieces are orbiting the Earth in a law-abiding orbit. The rocket with the satellites was launched on Tuesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province of North China.
These 18 satellites were part of the first bench. Its aim was to create its own version of Elon Musk's Starlink. It is called the Qian Fen (Thousand Cell) broad-band network. These satellites were designed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for Micro Satellites. These rockets successfully delivered the satellites to an altitude of about 800 km.
In a statement on X-Post, US Spacecom said that the Long March 6A rocket launched on August 6 broke up and more than 300 pieces of it are now orbiting in the Earth's lower atmosphere. However, there is no danger. The US space domain is constantly monitoring it.