Unlike most modern rocket bodies, which are designed to push themselves into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, the Long March 5B body fell into its own orbit around Earth.In May 2020, debris from one of those rockets was discovered near two villages in Ivory Coast, reportedly causing property damage."Rockets get launched all the time, and very seldom is there concern about reentry," John Logsdon, the founder of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute, told Insider in May 2021, as the world waited for the rocket body to fall."If you roll the dice too many times, someone will get lucky," Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who meticulously tracks objects in Earth's orbit, previously told Insider.Ted Muelhaupt, a consultant who works on the Aerospace Corporation's reentry database, previously told Insider that an object weighting at least 1 ton falls from orbit and reenters the atmosphere on a weekly basis."