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Possible Fragment From ISS Battery Pallet May Have Crashed Through Florida Home
NASA is investigating the incident to determine if its recent disposal of a gigantic pallet of old batteries is to blame for the damage.
Three years ago, NASA tossed a massive pallet of old batteries from the International Space Station (ISS), hoping that it would burn up through Earth’s atmosphere. “Often we get reentries like this and someone from several-hundred miles away saying, ‘I found this weird thing in my backyard that may have fallen today or may have been there for a week,’ and I roll my eyes and move on,” McDowell told Gizmodo. However, a backlog forced NASA to simply toss the batteries inside a cargo pallet using the space station’s robotic arm, which led to the uncontrolled reentry.
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