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Five days earlier a 10-foot piece of space debris crashed in Australia - the largest one since SkyLab. https://www.newsweek.com/huge-piece-space-rocket-falls-s
by MilnerRoute 4y ago
Five days earlier a 10-foot piece of space debris crashed in Australia - the largest one since SkyLab.
https://www.newsweek.com/huge-piece-space-rocket-falls-sky-lands-sheep-farm-1729111 https://www.newsweek.com/huge-piece-space-rocket-falls-sky-l...
It's probably unrelated -- but there's the possibility that an even larger object had split into two chunks, with one hitting Australia and the other taking an additional five days before its orbit decayed.
- throwaheyy 4y agoOf course no response from the faceless corporation dumping lethal space junk on people’s properties.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoProbably because it's not yet known which entity is responsible despite what has been posted on social media.
- Fatnino 4y agoIt looks A LOT like a piece of spacex dragon capsule's jetisoned trunk that was intended to fall into the sea between Australia and New Zealand. This debris was found just a short way earlier on its trajectory so seems clear to me that spacex was aiming for a controlled reentry and it went in just a little bit early. This likely due to fluctuations in the upper atmosphere but spacex should have left larger margins for error.
- londons_explore 4y agoThis sort of thing tends to be resolved privately with the landowners involved rather than publicly.