Near miss: Indonesia probes crash of suspected Chinese rocket fragment

October 19, 2026 · 2:35 pm 2 sources

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• A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer's cornfield
  Ars Technica · October 19, 2026 14:35
  All the evidence points to the debris being part of a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket.

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• Near miss: Indonesia probes crash of suspected Chinese rocket fragment
  Phys.org · October 20, 2026 09:46
  Indonesian authorities were investigating Tuesday after a car-sized piece of debris, possibly from a Chinese rocket according to a government agency, crashed into a palm oil plantation near homes and work sites.