13.05.2024

As space development progresses, the danger of falling objects such as satellites and rockets cannot be ignored, and it

was reported that debris from the International Space Station destroyed a private home in the United States in April 2024. A local television station has reported that a part believed to be part of a satellite has been found in Canada.
Barry Sawchuk, a fifth-generation farmer in Ituna, Saskatchewan, Canada, discovered strange objects scattered in a corner of the approximately 10,000 acres (about 40 square kilometers) of farmland he farms with his wife and four sons on April 28, 2024.
It's common to find trash on farms, but this is the first time something like this has been found.

When Sawchuk brought the 100-pound piece home, he wondered if it was something from outer space.

'We believe it may be a satellite or part of something that has re-entered the atmosphere. It has char in places so you can tell it has burned up. The piece is carbon fibre composite with an aluminium honeycomb structure on top and another layer of carbon fibre composite on the back,' Sawchuk told local television station CTV News Regina.

According to Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at Harvard University in the United States, this is the trunk of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft used for the private space mission

Axiom-3 (AX-3) , which re-entered the atmosphere over Saskatchewan on February 26, 2024.

'We don't know where the debris will land on its trajectory straight through Saskatchewan, and it's pretty unpredictable because of things like atmospheric turbulence,' Samantha Lawler, an astronomer at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, told CTV News Regina.
CTV News Regina contacted the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which confirmed the debris found on Sawchuk's farm was not part of a plane, and the Canadian Space Agency told the station it was investigating the incident.

Quelle: GIGAZINE