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The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang army. There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west.

Spain briefly closes airspace over risks from Chinese rocket debris

Feb 3,2022 11:15 pm

By Nadeem ShadBBC News

Spain briefly closed parts of its airspace over the risks posed by a Chinese rocket re-entering Earth's atmosphere.

Barcelona and Ibiza airports were among those impacted by the grounding, which lasted around 40 Minutes on Friday.

The decision came After China sent its powerful Long March 5B rocket to deliver The Final module of its Tiangong space station.

A Remnant of The Rocket is now making an uncontrolled re-entry.

Most of the Remnant was expected to burn up during its descent.

But there is some concern some of the Remnant - described As One of the largest objects to re-enter the atmosphere in recent years by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency - May survive.

In May 2020, properties in Ivory Coast were damaged when debris from The Rocket 's first launch came back down to Earth.

The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking service has said on its website that the " statistical probability of an impact on the ground in populated areas is low" with the Remnant expected to land somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean .

However, it warned Southern Italy , as well as northern Spain and Portugal were also in the debris' trajectory.

As a precaution, Spain's national airspace Agency established an 100km (62 mile) wide exclusion zone on either side of The Falling rocket's orbit.

The impact on flights is expected to continue throughout The Day .

In The Past , America's Space Agency , has called On China to design rockets to disintegrate into smaller pieces upon re-entry, As Is The International norm.



Source of news: bbc.com

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