It's not Chinese satellites that make the Doom reports, It's the first stage of their Long March rockets. They launch them up there without any means of a controlled de-orbit.

They're almost 50,000lbs, this old US satellite is only 5,400 lbs. Big difference.

It’s also a satellite from almost forty years ago, versus a rocket stage launched in the past year. It also provided data for twenty years, instead of the fifteen minutes of utility that the rocket stage provided.

Edit: To add about the utility of the satellite: “That data helped shape the Montreal Protocol Agreement, an international agreement signed in 1987 by dozens of countries, that resulted in a dramatic decrease around the globe in the use of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) – chemicals once commonly used in aerosol sprays, refrigeration and air conditioners.”

No it's not. America will do everything in their power to prevent debris from landing on inhabited areas. China and Russia literally poison they're people with every launch and China doesn't give a fuck where it's debris falls. The difference is the US tries to prevent this where the other knowingly does things that will cause harm.

u/Lucas_7437 before making your comment did you ever think about what type of object is re entering earth? How about if it was a planned re entry? “REalY maKeS YoU thInK”

The Chinese rocket stages have massive engine bells that can survive reentry. This satellite may have a few objects that survive.

Satellites usually burn up almost entirely in the atmosphere depending on size and materials used. This will likely never make it to the surface

Because satellites this is a satellite from decades ago and the US actually has pretty good planned reentries/design for end of life that doesn’t endanger people Vs China still literally drops massive rocket stages on Earth without planning.

Every US rocket has a flight termination system that self destructs if it goes off course to protect the people below, and they’re all launched over the ocean. China just drops the stages on villages as part of its design.

No it doesn't...these are calculated and predictable events.

Because the Chinese will launch massive rockets the weight of a building up in space and leave them without any plans for their fall, whereas the US sends a satellite that weighs about the same as a truck and catches the thruster rocket in the ocean safely.

The satellite will most likely burn up on re-entry, leaving only tiny fragments if anything that touches the ground. The rocket will not, and will crash and leave a crater somewhere.

That's the difference.

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Yes same goes for everything else and it's simply propaganda. America has the loudest media in the world.