The Defense Department said Wednesday it has no plans to shoot down and break up a 46,000-pound Chinese rocket hurtling toward Earth and expected to reenter the atmosphere on Saturday.

China launched the first module of its space station Thursday atop a 100-foot-long Long March 5B rocket, but unlike most rockets, the 5B will not follow a preplanned path safely into an ocean. Rather, it is still in space and falling closer to Earth. U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs is tracking the rocket’s path, but the Pentagon said today it is too early to tell where it might fall.