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Kenya investigating fallen space debris (arynews.tv)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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NAIROBI: Kenyan officials said Wednesday they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in the country’s south.

The issue of space trash has risen in tandem with increased spatial traffic.

Kenya Space Agency (KSA) said the object, a metallic ring roughly 2.5 metres (8 feet) in diametre and weighing some 500 kilogrammes (1,100 pounds), crashed into Mukuku village, in Makueni county, on December 30 at around 3:00 pm local time (1200 GMT).

The KSA, working alongside other agencies and local authorities, “secured the area and retrieved the debris, which is now under the Agency’s custody for further investigation.”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Imagine that falling and landing around you like a Charlie Chaplin film

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yo "The General" was a sweet movie that still holds up

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m not sure what launch vehicles this could have conceivably come from - there’s not a lot of 2.5 meter rockets. Maybe it was a payload adapter?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

SpaceX is known to drop shit all over the place, but yeah no idea if they have something like that. Could also just be from a plane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

As bad as SpaceX may be, the Chinese have been terrifyingly incompetent at avoiding space debris falling on people. Still, I don’t know if any of their rockets have a diameter like this.

Certainly could be from non-space activities, like you said.

[–] Sculptor9157 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Could also just be from a plane.

Boeing glances around nervously...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Boeing: loads gun