A Giant Piece of Space Station Trash Will Crash to Earth This Weekend

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Quote :: The pallet, tossed from the ISS in March 2021 by the trusty Canadarm2, is facing imminent destruction in Earth’s atmosphere three years after serving its purpose in a major battery replacement project on the station. According to Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer Jonathan McDowell, the pallet “will not totally burn up on reentry—about half a ton of fragments will likely hit the Earth’s surface,” McDowell noted on X.

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Well, it didn't kill anyone (that we know of), but it was not necessarily totally harmless.

Metal thought to be International Space Station trash rips through Florida home

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This sort of thing is getting more and more common.

Possible SpaceX Debris Crashes Onto Canadian Farm

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SpaceX seems to be a bit better than the chinese, so far anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1zmC39vU85E