Probably SpaceX debris found in Australia

[Cosmacelf]

Big chunks of what was probably the remnants of a SpaceX dragon trunk jettisoned on July 8 were found in an Australian field. Love the doggos in the TV report.

Astrophysicist believes piece of debris found in a sheep paddock is space junk

Sheep farmers in the Snowy Monaro may have stumbled across the largest pieces of space junk found in Australia since NASA's Skylab space station came plummeting back to Earth in 1979.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Electroman]

It is jettisoned while deorbiting? Thought these things are jettisoned over ocean.

Is it jettisoned only on human flights? And on cargo flights they come back taking stuff back from ISS?

 

[Cosmacelf]

It is jettisoned while deorbiting? Thought these things are jettisoned over ocean.

Is it jettisoned only on human flights? And on cargo flights they come back taking stuff back from ISS?

They try to make sure such things fall into the ocean, but sometimes they miss. It isn’t an exact science since they don’t have guidance nor propulsion and also the atmospheric density changes unpredictably.

 

[Grendal]

Big chunks of what was probably the remnants of a SpaceX dragon trunk jettisoned on July 8 were found in an Australian field. Love the doggos in the TV report.

Great find. A double win with the nerdy astrophysicist and the doggies.

On a side note, you can really see the difference in the way the media reports things in the US versus that informative report in Australia. Over here the media does everything possible to make everything controversial and dramatic. This report would have been played up as an intense tragedy of epic proportions. In this case we get a rational and reasonable nerdy scientist explaining everything in nerdy detail.

 

[Cosmacelf]

Great find. A double win with the nerdy astrophysicist and the doggies.

On a side note, you can really see the difference in the way the media reports things in the US versus that informative report in Australia. Over here the media does everything possible to make everything controversial and dramatic. This report would have been played up as an intense tragedy of epic proportions. In this case we get a rational and reasonable nerdy scientist explaining everything in nerdy detail.

Honestly, I like Australian media for explaining even the American political scene better than any US media

Having said that, I wonder (I really don't know) how independent their media is from their government. I know that in Canada (my home country), all major media are in the tank for the current ruling party, and the media is even more distorted since 90% of news gathering expenditures is by the CBC, which is wholly funded by the government.