Chinese Long March 3B upper stage makes uncontrolled reentry over Florida [1:36]

YouTube ^ | November 8, 2025 | Spaceflight Now

[SunkenCiv]

On Saturday, Nov. 8, less than an hour before the planned launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, chunks of metal and other debris were spotted streaking across the sky across Florida. 

Spaceflight Now Photographer John Pisani captured video of what was later determined to be the upper stage of a Chinese Long March 3B rocket that launched back in 2019. 

Chinese Long March 3B upper stage makes uncontrolled reentry over Florida | 1:36 
Spaceflight Now | 383K subscribers | 1,650 views | November 8, 2025

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; falcon9; nasa; rocketlab; spacex

[SunkenCiv]

I get a little bored with the over 500 launches of the Falcon 9 — nothin’ blows up, landings are perfect (robot rocket, robot barge)... 😉

With current experience the company expects to get 40-50 launches out of each active booster.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good catch
/Vandenberg allows polar launches headed south.

[ifinnegan]

“” The Chinese could care less where things land”

That’s right .

[John S Mosby]

That’s where it came from-— no wonder! That and his “National Brotherwood Week” frequently comes to mind. Thinking he could not get away with his songs nowadays— no way the weenie woke wimps (if they could even understand the verbage) would not scream howl.