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The space debris was simply ejected from the station – it was supposed to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, but one of the fragments “survived” and broke through the roof and floor of a Florida resident’s two-story house. NASA experts immediately arrived at the scene and took the kilogram object for further investigation. The […]
A few weeks ago, an object, presumably from the ISS, fell on the roof of a house in Florida. The house belongs to Alejandro Otero, who was absent at the time of the incident. However, the incident was recorded by a home camera. The object fell at 14:34 local time on March 8, which corresponds […]
A 2.9-ton cargo pallet used for a battery modernization mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is flying toward Earth. It will soon re-enter the planet’s atmosphere, Gizmodo reports. The pallet was ejected from the ISS in 2021 and is expected to disintegrate in the atmosphere. However, Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer Jonathan McDowell notes that the pallet […]
Rocket Lab USA has successfully launched its first Electron mission in 2024, dedicated to solving the problem of space debris. As part of the Four Of A Kind mission for clients Spire Global and NorthStar Earth & Space, the Electron rocket delivered four Space Surveillance Awareness (SSA) satellites into Earth orbit. These satellites will be […]
TransAstra signed a contract with NASA for $850 thousand. to create a prototype bag for capturing space debris in orbit. The developer plans to go much further than collecting and burning garbage in the Earth’s atmosphere. Together with ThinkOrbital, he plans to create a factory complex in orbit to recover and recycle the collected garbage […]