On November 4, a large Chinese rocket booster hurtled into the south-central Pacific Ocean, forcing part of Spain’s airspace to be shut down and delaying hundreds of flights. It was called “one of the largest pieces of debris re-entering in the near past†by the European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking (EUSST) agency, according to the Guardian. Furthermore, this booster was not the first Chinese spacecraft to strike unexpectedly. A consultant with Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit group in the U.S. funded by the federal government told the New York Times, “We, the world, don’t deliberately launch things this big intending them to fall wherever.”
