BEIJING – Officials in China have said the upper stage of its Long March 5B rocket that launched the core module of its space station on April 29 will mostly burn up on re-entry, posing little threat to people and property on the ground.
The U.S. Space Command is tracking the whereabouts of the rocket -- a 23-ton piece of space debris -- but said the entry point into our atmosphere is something that no one will be able to pinpoint until hours before its entry, according to NPR.
That is expected to happen sometime Saturday, at an unknown location. The rocket carried the main module of Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, into orbit on April 29.