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International Space Station Trash May Have Hit This Florida House
The object tore through the roof and both floors of a two-story home. NASA will investigate whether it’s space junk.
But a series of delays meant this cargo pallet missed its ride back to Earth, so NASA jettisoned the batteries from the space station in 2021 to head for an unguided reentry. It's important to note that objects of this mass, or larger, regularly fall to Earth on guided trajectories, but they're usually failed satellites or spent rocket stages left in orbit after completing their missions. The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center, says a “general rule of thumb” is that 20 to 40 percent of the mass of a large object will reach the ground.
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