The reentry of the Chinese Zhuque-2E upper stage 2025-103G over Kazachstan on 5 June 2025

still from one of the fireball movies posted on Twitter by @Buggy__Bugler In the evening of 5 June 2025 around 22h local time (17h UTC), a slow profusely fragmenting fireball was seen and filmed from several cities in Kazachstan , including Astana , and Bishkek in neighbouring Kirgistan . It had all the well-known characteristics of a satellite or rocket stage reentry. Indeed, as it turns out,…