Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms
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The mysterious object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month did indeed come from the International Space Station (ISS), NASA has confirmed.
The pallet and the batteries were expected to burn up completely in Earth’s atmosphere, NASA officials said in today’s update — yet that didn’t happen, and the agency wants to learn why.
“These models require detailed input parameters and are regularly updated when debris is found to have survived atmospheric reentry to the ground.”
For instance, the 23-ton core stages of China’s powerful Long March 5B rocket routinely fall in an uncontrolled fashion a week or so after their launches, to the consternation of the international space community.
“I eagerly await communication from the responsible agencies, as their assistance is crucial in resolving the damages from this deliberate release.
But more importantly how in the future to arrange the payload so it will burn in its entirety as it reenters,” Otero wrote via X on March 8, shortly after his home was hit.
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