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Science news weekly recap: Chinese rocket debris, International Space Station robots, and more

Science news weekly recap: Chinese rocket debris, International Space Station robots, and more

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China successfully launched the Wentian module of its Tiangong space station last week. But this week, the country is closely monitoring the uncontrolled reentry of the debris from the most powerful rocket that it has ever built. While the thought of that may be a little hard to stomach, not all space news is so […]

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Heads up, again: China set to launch space station module with giant rocket

Heads up, again: China set to launch space station module with giant rocket

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Another big Chinese rocket is about to go up Sunday, and once again, no one knows where or when it will come down. It will be a replay of two earlier launches of the same rocket, the Long March 5B, which is one of the largest currently in use and designed to carry massive modules […]

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