Get the latest tech news
NASA confirms origin of space junk that crashed through Florida home
It originated from a pallet jettisoned from the ISS in 2021.
The agency analyzed the cylindrical object after it tore through the roof and two floors of a house in Naples on March 8th, and established that it came from a cargo pallet of aging batteries that was released from the ISS back in 2021. More specifically, NASA revealed in a blog post on Monday that the offending object was a support component used to mount the batteries on the 5,800-pound (2,630-kilogram) pallet released from the space station. It’s not unheard of for space-related junk to find its way back to Earth — components from rockets launched by SpaceX and (more recently) the China National Space Administration have crashed into properties for example, though such debris typically burns up in the atmosphere.
Or read this on The Verge
