2024-04-16 09:52:58
The impending crash caused quite a stir in March, but it is now clear: part of a discarded battery pack from the ISS space station has hit a building in the USA.
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NASA announced on Monday (local time) that a house in Naples, Florida, was affected. The US space agency thus confirmed the suspicions of the homeowner, who had reported the impact in his home in March.
The battery pack largely burned up over Central America at the beginning of March, and small pieces of debris fell into the sea in a corridor between Guatemala and Florida. The pallet had previously flown over Germany at an altitude of 139 kilometers, as the Bundeswehr Space Situation Center announced. There were also warnings about ISS battery debris in Austria – especially in Vorarlberg, Tyrol and Carinthia.
The man in Naples had contacted an astronomer on the online platform X (formerly Twitter) who had posted about the ISS debris entering the atmosphere. Apparently one of the parts ended up in his house, wrote Alejandro Otero on X. He also posted pictures of a piece of metal – and of holes in the roof and ceiling. “Break through my roof and go through 2 floors. Almost hit my son,” he wrote and asked the scientist to contact NASA.
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