Scientific curiosity; reentry of space object - My Actifit Report Card: August 14 2024

Incidents of space objects falling are not something new, the fall on the re-entry of the first American space station The skylab that fell in Australia in 1979 without causing damage NASA was fined by the Australian authority with $400 Australian for littering and fear Space junk was revived when planes were announced to destroy the Russian MIR space station in 2001.

What really happens when an object falls into the atmosphere is that the heat is produced by the compression that the object exerts on the air, this creates a very high pressure in the air in front of the object where the air molecules literally break, It ionizes and this translates into very high temperatures that, without thermal insulation, the components can melt and burn.

As there are more and more things in space, these types of incidents happen more and more often, in May a piece of SpaceX's Dragon crew capsule, which was supposed to disintegrate upon re-entry, survived falling into a recreational area in the United States and In March, a piece of a battery pack from the international space station that was discarded in 2021 went through the roof and floor of a home in Florida.

Although there was one person in the house when it happened, he was found in another room. So no one was hurt but the family is suing NASA and rightly so.

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