CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -This will be the fourth time China has allowed its biggest rocket, Long March 5B(Opens in a new tab), to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere without having any control over where it falls.

Detailed explanation-2: -The space station is one of the crown jewels of Beijing’s ambitious space programme, which has landed robotic rovers on Mars and the Moon and made China only the third nation to put humans in orbit. A Long March 5B rocket carrying the final module of Tiangong space station.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the month of May 2020, the first maiden flight by China’s Long March-5B carrier rocket was completed, and then, the rocket launched the Tianhe core module of the China Space Station (CSS) in the year April 2021. China carried out a series of missions from 2020 to 2022 to build its first space station.

Detailed explanation-4: -The mission marks the fifth launch of the Ceres-1 rocket-a small solid fuel orbital rocket designed by the company, Galactic Energy said. So far, it has successfully put 19 commercial satellites into space, setting a record for a private Chinese firm.

Detailed explanation-5: -In July 2022, a 25-ton Long March 5B core stage fell through Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. Prior to that in April 2021, the core stage left over from another Tiangong space station mission scattered debris into the same body of water.