Parts of Long March 5B are back in the atmosphere at 10:24 am. Beijing time (0224 GMT) and longitude landed at a location with coordinates of 72.47 degrees East and Latitude 2.65 degrees North, Chinese state media cited the Chinese Manned Space Engineering Office.

The coordinates placed an impact point in the ocean west of the Maldives archipelago.

Most of the debris was burned in the atmosphere, according to china’s manned space engineering office.

Some people have been staring at the warily skyward since shortly after debris from Long March 5B exploded from China’s Hainan Island on April 29.

The Long March launched last week is the second deployment of the 5B variant from its maiden flight in May 2020. Last year, pieces from the first Long March 5B fell on the ivory coast, damaging several buildings. There were no injuries.

With most of the Earth’s surface covered with water, the odds of a populated area on Earth are low, and injuries are likely to be even lower, experts said.

But uncertainty over the rocket’s orbital decline and China’s failure to issue strong reassurances before re-entering has fueled concern.

During the rocket flight, Harvard-based astronomer Jonathan McDowell told Reuters that the potential debris zone could be north as far as New York, Madrid, or Beijing, and south as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand.

McDowell said that since large parts of NASA’s space station Skylab fell from orbit in July 1979 and landed in Australia, many countries have tried to avoid such uncontrolled re-enactments by designing their spacecraft.

“It makes Chinese rocket designers look lazy,” said McDowell, a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The Global Times, a Chinese tabloid published by the official People’s Daily, dismissed the rocket as “out of control” and “Western hype” concerns that it could cause damage.