Debris from a Chinese rocket is expected to crash to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry this weekend.
The probability of it landing in any populated area is extremely low, SIA cites foreign media.
But it has raised questions about how different countries take responsibility for their space junk.
There have previously been calls by Nasa for the Chinese space agency to design their rockets to disintegrate into smaller pieces upon re-entry, as is the international norm.
Recent rockets heading to China's unfinished space station, known as Tiangong, have lacked the capability for a controlled re-entry.
The latest launch was on Sunday, when a Long March 5 rocket carried a lab module to the Tiangong station. The Chinese government said on Wednesday that the rocket's re-entry would pose little risk to anyone on the ground because it would most likely land in the sea.
However, there is the possibility for pieces of the rocket to come down over a populated area, as they did in May 2020 when properties in Ivory Coast were damaged.
The empty rocket body is now in an elliptical orbit around Earth where it is being dragged toward an uncontrolled re-entry.
According to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit organisation based in California, re-entry will occur around 00:24 on Sunday, plus or minus 16 hours.
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