A space junk fragment from discarded ISS equipment crashed into a Florida home in March.
NASA has confirmed that a mystery object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home in March was a chunk of space junk from equipment discarded at the International Space Station. The cylindrical object that tore through the home was subsequently taken to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral for analysis. NASA determined that it was a metal support used to mount old batteries on a cargo pallet for disposal, which had been jettisoned from the space station in 2021. The load was expected to fully burn up on entry into Earth's atmosphere, but one piece survived.
April 15, 2024
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