There is also Sardinia among the areas where parts of the Chinese "Long March" rocket could crash, falling "uncontrolled" towards the Earth.

According to the new updates and the most recent forecasts, the Civil Protection has made it known that three different trajectories towards Italy cannot yet be excluded. The latter could affect the Center-South, in particular, as mentioned, Sardinia, but also Lazio (from Latina to the South), Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, Calabria and Sicily.

"The Space Situational Awareness Center of Poggio Renatico, in coordination with the Defense Space Operations Command, is monitoring the uncontrolled reentry into the atmosphere of the second stage of a Chinese rocket which, on 24 July, had brought the Wentian module into orbit space station of the People's Republic of China ”, explains a note from the Ministry of Defense .

"To date - adds the press release - entry into the atmosphere is estimated in the late night of Saturday 30 July , meaning that further measurements will allow us to define more precisely the return parameters".

The “Long March” rocket took off from China to send a module into orbit for the Beijing “Tiangong” space station , under construction. But his return went "out of control", triggering alarm and even controversy over the low safety standards of the Beijing aerospace program.

(Unioneonline / lf)