According to Chinese state media, remnants of China's largest rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with the majority of its components destroyed upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, putting an end to days of speculation about where the debris would land.

Parts of the Long March 5B re-entered the atmosphere at 10:24 a.m. Beijing time (0224 GMT) and landed at a location with the coordinates longitude 72.47 degrees east and latitude 2.65 degrees north, according to Chinese state media.

The point of impact was located in the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago, according to the coordinates.

According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, the majority of the debris was burned up in the atmosphere.

Some people have been looking up at debris from the Long March 5B since it took off from China's Hainan island on April 29.

The Long March launched last week was the 5B variant's second deployment since its maiden flight in May 2020. Last year, fragments of the first Long March 5B fell on Ivory Coast, causing damage to several buildings. There were no reported injuries.

With water covering the majority of the Earth's surface, the likelihood of a populated area on land being hit was low, and the likelihood of a populated area on land being hit was high.

Experts believe that because water covers the majority of the Earth's surface, the chances of a populated area on land being hit are low, and the likelihood of injuries is even lower.

However, uncertainty about the rocket's orbital decay, as well as China's failure to provide stronger assurances in the run-up to the re-entry, fueled concern.

During the rocket's flight, Harvard-based astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told Reuters that the debris zone could have been as far north as New York, Madrid, or Beijing, and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand.

Since large chunks of the NASA space station Skylab fell from orbit and landed in Australia in July 1979, most countries have sought to avoid such uncontrolled re-entries through spacecraft design, according to McDowell.

"The fact that the Chinese rocket designers didn't address this makes them look lazy," said McDowell, a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Concerns that the rocket is "out of control" and could cause damage were dismissed as "Western hype" by the Global Times, a Chinese tabloid published by the official People's Daily.

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