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Re:New Long March 5B Uncontrolled Reentry Tracked by Aerospa... by MonkeyMalarky on Sunday November 06, 2022 @12:00PM (#33494619)
I'd chock it up under crass disregard for others safety. They drop boosters on their own people and don't care: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/china-keeps-dropping...

>China's defiance of this norm has resulted in some horrific scenes as its boosters have periodically crashed into villages.

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Re:New Long March 5B Uncontrolled Reentry Tracked by Aerospa... by dangle1 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @12:30PM (#33494992)
And possibly a fairing half dropped onto a populated area from a different launch yesterday:

https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1589289240776839168

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Re:New Long March 5B Uncontrolled Reentry Tracked by Aerospa... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Sunday November 06, 2022 @02:06PM (#33495915)
"It's fine, we did tell everyone to evacuate" - I wonder how many actually evacuate / can afford to evacuate every time.
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