Quickie
Colonel
Western media is really exaggerating how the LM rocket stage is falling back to earth in an uncontrolled manner. Rocket stages have been reentering and falling back to earth in an "uncontrolled manner" for decades. It's just that the LM rocket stage happened to be the largest or one of the largest in recent decades since no other country has been sending Space Station module-sized payload to orbit since the time of the construction of the ISS.
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Recent Re-entries This table lists major re-entries that occurred in the last 30 days, whether natural or deliberate. Information is provided by Space-Track and the list is updated frequently.
Note on TIP Messages Close to re-entry time for many items, SpaceTrack issues TIP Messages with a more-precise warning of the event. The meaning of the 'TIP' acronym is lost in history but SpaceTrack has made a guess at Tracking and Impact Prediction. ”Time and Impact Prediction” is also more than possible. The message includes an estimated latitude and longitude for when the object will go through a height of ten kilometres above the ground. It is NOT an estimate of the impact point for debris. In most cases, it is meaningless because of the length of the Window included in the message. TIP Messages are often a source of confusion as people take the predicted time literally and ignore the error margin (Window) that is also part of the message. In 2011 RIA-Novosti used a TIP Message, issued several weeks in advance, to pinpoint a village in North Africa, doggedly insisting that it would feel the full force of of Phobos-Grunt’s re-entry. SpaceTrack's Window was ±2 days, representing over one million kilometres of ground track and a large proportion of the Earth's surface between 52° North and 52° South. | |
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