the NASA order the astronauts of the International Space Station release a load of space debris of 2.9 tons, The largest in history.
The in-orbit lab discarded a used battery palette of this large size on Thursday morning, March 11, told Gizmodo the spokeswoman for the NASA Leah Cheshier.
It is expected that the space debris return to the land in two or four years and burns “without harming the atmosphere,” but not everyone is convinced that this is the case. Likewise, the United States Air Force Space Command will be responsible for tracking
They have already been replaced
This cargo was ejected because, in May 2020, a cargo ship from the Japan Space Agency JAXA, it came with six new lithium-ion batteries that replaced it.
Because there is no cargo ship carrying it, the space debris will move thanks to gravitational attraction until it enters the atmosphere.
Space junk is becoming a growing scourge in the neighborhood around our planet. A study by astronomers at the University of Warwick found that more than 75% of the detected waste did not match the catalog of active satellites.
even the International Space Station, Which orbits at a lower altitude in the studied area, had to make an evasive maneuver by a piece of space debris that came too close for its safety.
Studies continue to examine the space debris and create algorithms that allow better prediction and identification of different types of waste and tracking, as well as supporting the creation of satellites that return to the land after its useful life.
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