A chunk of the International Space Station that was released three years ago crashed into a Florida home last month, according to NASA’s Monday news release. A cargo pallet was released from the space station in March 2021. It was filled with aging batteries. When released, it was supposed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere
Part of a battery pack discharged by the International Space Station hits Florida home, damaging the roof and flooring.
Update (April 17): NASA has confirmed that a piece of hardware survived re-entry through Earth's atmosphere and impacted a house in Naples, Florida last month. Analysis conducted at Kennedy Space Center in Florida verified the homeowner's suspicions that the object belonged to the International Space Station.Read Entire Article
NASA released the Space Station batteries, and instead of burning them, they survived and hit a home in Florida.
A Florida homeowner was treated to a shocking surprise when a jettisoned piece of metal from the International Space Station crashed into his home in March. On Monday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed the space station was the source of the debris. The debris "tore through the roof" of Alejandro Otero's home on March 8, passing through two floors and nearly hitting his son, the Naples resident said in a March 15 post on X. A month later, NASA released a public...
Cylinder slab that tore through Naples home last month was debris released from International Space Station in 2021A heavy chunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a Florida home is, in fact, space junk, Nasa has confirmed.The federal space agency said that a cylinder slab that tore through a house in Naples, Florida, last month was debris from a cargo pallet released from the international space station in 2021, according to a Nasa blogpost. Continue reading
"It was a tremendous sound. And it almost hit my son. He was two rooms over and heard it all," Otero recalled.
"It was a tremendous sound. And it almost hit my son. He was two rooms over and heard it all," Otero recalled.
On March 8, a piece of space debris plunged through a roof in Naples, FL, ripped through two floors and (fortunately) missed the son of homeowner Alejandro Otero. On Tuesday, NASA confirmed the results of its analysis of the incident. As suspected, it’s a piece of equipment dumped from the International Space Station (ISS) three years ago. NASA’s investigation of the object at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral confirmed it was a piece of the EP-9 support equipment used to mount batteries...
The PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission has delivered its first operational data back to researchers, a feat made possible in part by innovative, data-storing technology from NASA's Near Space Network, which introduced two key enhancements for PACE and other upcoming science missions.
The home's owner, Alejandro Otero, allowed NASA to collect and analyze the sample after attempting to connect with the agency through a post on X, formerly Twitter, last month.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration head Bill Nelson warned on Wednesday that China is passing off military endeavors in space as civilian projects, reiterating that the US is in a "race" with Beijing to reach the moon in the 21st century."China has made extraordinary strides, especially in the last 10 years, but they are very, very secretive," Nelson told members of the House Appropriations Committee at a 2024 budget hearing."We believe that a lot of their, so-called civilian space...