The fiery spectacle was caught on video by unsuspecting campers.
by U.S. Naval Institute News on March 9. According to USNI News, the four-ton rocket section entered the atmosphere above the southwestern corner of Texas at a speed of 17,000 mph at approximately 9:30 p.m. CST on March 7 after falling from low Earth orbit. U.S. Space Command later issued a statement to USNI confirming the reentry.
Following the event, a Space.com reader emailed us with photographs and videos of a fiery streak in the atmosphere that were filmed in southern Texas at the same time as the Chinese rocket body's reentry. The images and videos certainly appear to show a piece of debris burning up inconsistent with previous rocket stage reentry events, although as with any purely photographic evidence, it's difficult to conclusively identify what exactly they may or may not depict.
Still, after reviewing the available information, astronomer and space launch tracker Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told Space.com that the video is"likely the reentering rocket stage."What appears to be a Chinese rocket stage reenters the atmosphere over Texas on March 7, 2023.
The videos and images were taken by Kylie McMillan, a student from Waco, Texas, while camping in the Boquillas Canyon in southern Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. "I went on a spring break trip with a group of other students when I spotted this in the sky," McMillan told Space.com."It was moving fairly quickly, and I believe we only saw it for approximately 30-45 seconds before it broke apart in the atmosphere. When I first saw it appear over the canyon, it was a bright orange/red but as it kept falling it got smaller and dimmer.
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