{"id":49990,"date":"2022-11-04T23:10:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/04\/spanish-airspace-partially-closed-as-chinese-rocket-debris-falls-to-earth"},"modified":"2022-11-04T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T14:10:11","slug":"spanish-airspace-partially-closed-as-chinese-rocket-debris-falls-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49990","title":{"rendered":"Spanish airspace partially closed as Chinese rocket debris falls to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge chunk of Long March 5B rocket launched four days previously re-enters atmosphere<\/p>\n<p>A hefty chunk of the massive rocket used to deliver the third module of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/first-astronauts-blast-off-for-china-new-space-station-tiangong\">China\u2019s Tiangong space station<\/a> has fallen back to Earth uncontrolled, triggering the closure of some of Spain\u2019s airspace and leading to hundreds of flight delays.<\/p>\n<p>Four days after blasting off from southern China, a large part of the Long March 5B (CZ-5B) rocket broke up as it re-entered the Earth\u2019s atmosphere over the south-central Pacific ocean at 10.01 UTC, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EU_SST\/status\/1588503271173664769\">European<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/US_SpaceCom\/status\/1588479612610289664\">US space authorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/04\/spanish-airspace-partially-closed-as-chinese-rocket-debris-falls-to-earth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge chunk of Long March 5B rocket launched four days previously re-enters atmosphereA hefty chunk of the massive rocket used to deliver the third module of China\u2019s Tiangong space station has fallen back to Earth uncontrolled, triggering the closure of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3416,"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":[41,50,221,530,299,297,746,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-european-union","category-science","category-space","category-spain","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49990","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\/3416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49991,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49990\/revisions\/49991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}