Giant hunk of Russian space junk crashes to Earth
A Russian Angara A5 rocket launches from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on the vehicle’s third demonstration mission on Dec. 27, 2021. The rocket, carrying a dummy payload, reached low Earth orbit, but an upper-stage engine failure prevented it from going higher as planned, according to media reports.Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket
crashed back to Earth in an uncontrolled fashion today , hitting the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at 4:08 p.m. EST . "Persei reentry confirmed: 2108 UTC over 121W 14S in the South [Pacific]," astronomer and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell, who's based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,The fall ended nine days aloft for Persei, which got stranded with a dummy payload during a test flight that launched on Dec. 27.
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