The dramatic footage surfaced online shortly after a Long March 2C carrier rocket blasted off.
on Saturday, leaving a trail of bright yellow smoke and sending villagers running, according to videos on Chinese social media and sent to CNN by a local witness.
CNN has reached out to the CASC and the State Council Information Office, which handles press inquiries for the Chinese government, including its space agency, for comment.A video posted on Kuaishou, a Chinese short-video site, appeared to show a long, cylindrical shaped piece of debris falling over a rural village and crashed next to a hill, with yellow smoke billowing from one end.
Residents were asked to leave their homes and other buildings an hour before the launch and scatter out in more open areas to observe the sky. "If you want to launch something to low Earth orbit, you usually launch it in the easternly direction to get some extra boost from the rotation of the Earth. But if you launch to the east, there are definitely always some villages in the pathway of the boosters of the first stage."
In comparison, NASA and the European Space Agency usually launch their rockets from coastal locations toward the ocean, said Schiller, who's also a director of ST Analytics in Munich,
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