The risk of being injured by falling space debris is supposedly “under 1 in ... a piece of junk from the International Space Station (ISS) tore through their roof last month.
Otero’s Nest home security camera captured the crash, which was heard around 2:34 p.m. The crash coincides with the time the U.S. Space Command noted the entry of some space debris from the ISS ...
The ISS zips around the Earth in a circular orbit 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the surface, so a piece of debris thrown overboard from the ISS would start off at the same orbit and shrink ...
The timing was suspicious, since the impact occurred at 2:34 p.m. EST, while U.S. Space Command recorded the reentry of the ISS’s space debris at 2:29 p.m. Otero posted on X on March 15 ...
NASA said the ISS will conduct an investigation to "determine the cause of the debris survival and to update modeling and analysis, as needed." Advertisement 2,013 confetti cannons fired at the ...
NASA has confirmed that a chunk of space debris that smashed through the roof of a Florida family’s home last month originated from the International Space Station (ISS), which is currently ...
The risk of being injured by falling space debris is supposedly “under 1 in 100 billion,” according to the European Space Agency (ESA), but for one family in Naples, it came very close after a piece ...
The 1.6-pound piece of debris, measuring about 4 inches long, was identified as "a stanchion from the NASA flight support equipment used to mount the batteries on the cargo pallet," NASA said. NASA ...