{"id":46937,"date":"2022-08-01T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T02:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/01\/we-thought-it-was-a-shooting-star-uncontrolled-chinese-rocket-fragments-seen-in-malaysia-video"},"modified":"2022-08-01T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T02:11:48","slug":"we-thought-it-was-a-shooting-star-uncontrolled-chinese-rocket-fragments-seen-in-malaysia-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46937","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We thought it was a shooting star&#8217;: uncontrolled Chinese rocket fragments seen in Malaysia \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese booster rocket has made an uncontrolled return to Earth. US defence department officials have chided Beijing for not sharing information on the potentially hazardous object\u2019s descent. The Long March 5B rocket re-entered Earth\u2019s atmosphere over the Indian ocean on Saturday. People in several parts of Malaysia reported seeing the fragments. &#8216;At first we thought it was a shooting star,&#8217; said Aizul Sidek, who was in the city of Kuching in Sarawak state when he captured footage with his smartphone<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/31\/nasa-criticises-china-after-space-rocket-makes-uncontrolled-return-to-earth\">Nasa criticises China after space rocket makes uncontrolled return to Earth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/29\/as-more-space-junk-falls-to-earth-will-china-clean-up-its-act\">As more space junk falls to Earth, will China clean up its act?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/01\/we-thought-it-was-a-shooting-star-uncontrolled-chinese-rocket-fragments-seen-in-malaysia-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese booster rocket has made an uncontrolled return to Earth. US defence department officials have chided Beijing for not sharing information on the potentially hazardous object\u2019s descent. The Long March 5B rocket re-entered Earth\u2019s atmosphere ove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,70,1584,297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-malaysia","category-nasa","category-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46938,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46937\/revisions\/46938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}