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Just a month after a piece of the ISS crashed through the roof of a house in Florida , we have a new case of falling space debris. This time the buildings were not damaged, as a piece of space debris ended up in the fields of a farm in Canada.
A farmer from Saskatchewan, Canada, discovered a heavy piece of burnt metal weighing about 40 kg in his fields and suspected that it was space debris. Although, as a non-specialist in the space industry, he did not know this for sure.
Chunk of space debris lands in Sask. farm field https://t.co/Fw2uKsS41V
— Victoria Samson (@VSamson_DC) May 16, 2024
Local reports of possible space debris reached a group of astronomy professors. They linked the burned fragments to the re-entry of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in February as part of the Axiom-3 mission. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the ISS over the Pacific Ocean west of Ecuador on February 7 and returned its crew of astronauts to Earth after landing off the coast of Daytona, Florida on February 9.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft consists of a reusable crew capsule and a disposable cargo module that is jettisoned before entering the Earth's atmosphere. It enters the atmosphere separately and, according to plan, should burn in its dense layers. However, this time he ended up on a farm in Canada several months after the spacecraft completed its mission.
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This is not the first time that SpaceX space debris has landed in a populated area. In July 2022, another charred piece of metal turned up on farmland in Australia and was also suspected to be the remains of a SpaceX Dragon cargo module.
As the space industry continues to actively develop, the risks of being hit by the remains of a spacecraft are growing. On average, between 200 and 400 human-made objects return through Earth's atmosphere every year, according to the ESA. Space agencies generally accept a probability threshold of 1 in 10,000 for the risk of accidents during a single uncontrolled re-entry.
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