Fotos zeigen die 1.000 Pfund schweren Weltraumschrotts, die in Kenia abgestürzt sind. Es ist unklar, wem es gehört.

Pretty sure a stage separation from a Centaur rocket that was scheduled to re-enter somewhere over Africa on Dec 30. Supposedly it re-entered over Lake Baikal but I bet this piece went just a little further.

And by „scheduled“ I just mean it was a possibility – it’s uncontrolled so they didn’t know exactly where it was going to break up and re-enter.

[https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/space-debris-crashes-into-kenyan-village-believed-to-be-leftover-rocket-hardware](https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/space-debris-crashes-into-kenyan-village-believed-to-be-leftover-rocket-hardware)

I appreciate how the article escalates from “space debris lands on earth” to describing a full-blown Kessler syndrome scenario would completely deny access to space.

I’m also guessing that sharing this photo is gonna result in at least one aerospace mechanical engineer going “oh crap that’s from my vehicle”.

Articles like this one prove that if you know anything about the topic then you know “the media” will get the details wrong. I worked for years with NASA’s Angus McRonald to turn his experience into SW that would calculate “likelihood of injury” for space debris. When the author says “No one was hurt, but space debris poses a serious threat to life on Earth…” I want a statistical comparison to ANY other airborne device. People die when planes crash on them. Space debris? To date, no injuries – ever. Angus made sure of it.

How did all of our monitors not pick up up 1,000 pounds of metal?

If nobody claims it in 30 days, they can keep it.