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SpaceX debris crashed onto Canadian farmland, highlighting a potential disaster
As the number of satellites and rocket launches increases, so does the amount of discarded rockets and components. This space junk risks falling to Earth, as it did in Saskatchewan this spring.
(NASA/KSC) Private or governmental, American or Chinese, organizations involved with space launches regularly allow objects like rocket bodies and satellites to re-enter uncontrollably, under the false premise that they will either burn up or fall into the ocean. The 1972 Liability Convention makes countries absolutely liable for damage, including loss of life, caused by its space objects falling onto the surface of the Earth or striking airplanes in flight. As for the Crew Dragon trunk scattered across Saskatchewan, in June, SpaceX sent two employees in a rented U-Haul truck to pick up the pieces, reportedly paying farmers for the fragments.
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