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A spacious part of the nose cone of a blue original rocket was washed on the edge of an Bahmanian island near a tourist destination. In Europe, the wreckage from a spaceX launch vehicle was crossed by Fleming debris to the German sky, and that seems to be the fuel tank that appears to land on a company’s property in Poland.
And this is just this week.
The events have been unrelated to the SpaceX Starship Rocket, which explodes the Midair during a test flight in January, the Turks and Caicos receive the debris of debris, where the residents said they still said that they still said that they are still beaches, roadways and bays Working to clean Detroitus from.
That situation raised questions about safety standards for testing flights of unproven launch vehicles traveling at population centers.
But this week’s two space debris related events indicate in Bahamas and Europe how successful rocket launch can also leave its mark on Earth.
They also throw light on the fact that the increase in the number of rockets launched in any week has increased the possibility that space junk will find a way to return to populated areas.
From the sky and the shore
According to the European Space Agency, the junk falls from space to our planet at all times – although most of it is blown back to Smithreen while immersing it back into the Earth’s thick environment. Thousands of miles per hour.
“Medium -sized satellites and rocket parts are almost entered daily, while small -sized space debris objects enter more often,” the agency said.
SpaceX rocket part that turned streak This week was a rare phenomenon through the European sky, though. The debris came from the second phase of a Falcon 9 rocket that carried out a regular mission.
The rocket flew from California on 1 February, stopping a batch of satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink Network, which beams Internet connectivity from space. But when the primary mission of transporting satellites into space went well, the upper step of the rocket – or the part that illumates a controlled splashadown in the middle of the ocean – after reaching the space to finish a mission. According to Jonathan McDowel, Harvard -Simithonian Center for Astrophysics, an astronomer physicist in the Simithonian Center for Astrophysics.
Based on the preliminary information, the Falcon 9 rocket part was taken out of the orbit in an uncontrolled manner, it is likely that the vehicle appeared to resume the Earth’s atmosphere on Europe this week and the Earth’s atmosphere.
Pictures and video rockets posted on social media show the upper stage, which retreated from the sky, retreated from the sky and disintegrated into pieces.
After coming to work in the early hours of Wednesday, a German train driver captured the program after spotting “a very strange constellation of flying lights in the sky” in a video.
The train driver, known as Ludi, told CNN in an email, “I was wondering what kind of flight items could be for the first time.” “I was thinking of falling stars, comets, meteors or even missiles.”
The European Space Agency confirmed and shared Ludi’s footage.
The Polish Space Agency also addressed in a statement, given that the trajectory of the rocket part would have taken it to Poland.
The images of what appears to be as an intact fuel tank descending near Posenan in Poland also began to broadcast on social media and local news reports.
Polish hardware and supply business Elektro-Hurt shared photos of the rejected rocket part-lying against a chain-link fence on its property-called “extraordinary distribution”.
It is not yet clear why the upper stage of Falcon 9 did not complete a regular, controlled lineage in the sea.
SpaceX did not respond to a request for the comment, although CNN confirmed the Federal Aviation Administration whether the company officials were working to verify whether the debris originated from Falcon 9 or not.
The FAA, which licenses the commercial rocket launch, told CNN that the agency did not begin an investigation into a possible accident with Falcon 9 immediately after the launch of February 1.
According to the FAA, SpaceX has 90 days to report a discrepancy, or rocket malfunction.
In an interview last month, Marlon Sorge – Executive Director of Center for Orbital and Reointment Debris Studies at Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research center , Said that space debris can be dangerous.
Space debris can pose a risk for those on the ground that are exposed to the object, especially if toxic fuels are included. But this is the only part of the danger, Sorge said that even nonsense Propalent “still unstable, like gasoline.”
According to Sorge, the tanks can be particularly dangerous, “if they become weak, you touch them, they blow,” they said.
“It’s not that it (always) is a death sentence to get close to one of these things,” Sorge said about space debris. “Most they are probably fine, but it is potentially risky. And it is not worthy of people being injured. ,
A piece of blue original debris washed in the Bahamas is not a sign of a rocket launch. Rather, debris – a large part of a rocket’s nose cone that introduces the signature of blue original staff – appears to be expected from the company’s new Glenn rocket during its first flight on 16 January.
The nose cone, or payload fairing, is designed to mold satellites during launch and go away from the vehicle after reaching the vacuum of the space. And when SpaceX tries to fix the fairing pieces because they return to the Earth, the new glenn of Blue Origin was expected to dispose of its nose cone into the sea.
It seems that the waves on Monday, according to a social media post, did what did a floating piece of hardware on the banks of an island in Bahamas.
“Does anyone have any muscle power to pull this space ship debris on the beach,” It is written in the post, it is called a danger and “historical discovery”.
Blue Origin confirmed that debris from the new Glenn Fairing was washed in Bahamas.
The company said in a statement to CNN on Tuesday, “Some minor debris from New Glenn’s fair washed the ashes in Abako, Bahamas in the weekend.” “Fairing landing in the sea was planned and expected. We have sent a team to fix the pieces. ,
Blue Origin included contact information for public members who could face space debris. People can reach the phone on 321-222-4355 or on email muchnrecovery@blueorigin.com.
NASA can also be reached on 202–358–0001. And Spacex has its own debris recovery email: reaulture@spacex.com.
SpaceX has struggled to land debris in populated areas before the Starship Missap in January.
In 2021, for example, a Falcon 9 fuel tank landed on a farm in the state of Washington. And the following year, a piece of SpaceX Dragon Capsule was recovered in Australia.
A string of other incidents also made headlines, From a mysterious ring shaped object that crashed in a village in Kenya in late December Last year to garbage a garbage from the international space station attacking a family house in Florida.
But space agencies and regulators stated that space debris pose a small risk for populated areas.
“The pieces that survive, very rarely do any harm on the ground. The European Space Agency said in a statement, “The danger of any satellite reverentry is very remote.” The annual risk of a person who is injured by space debris is less than 1 in 100 billion. In comparison, a person is almost almost due to lightning. 65,000 times more.
