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A hunk of junk from the International Space Station hurtles back to Earth
This involved a pallet of batteries from the space station with a mass of more than ... Over a span of months and years, low-Earth orbit is self-cleaning thanks to the influence of aerodynamic ...
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Space station tosses 2.9-ton hunk of space junk overboard. It will stay in orbit for years.
The International Space Station got a little lighter last week. The orbiting lab discarded a 2.9-ton (2.6 metric tons) pallet of used batteries on Thursday morning (March 11) — the most massive ...
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International Space Station releases 2.9-TON pallet of batteries into orbit that NASA says should burn up ‘harmlessly’ in the atmosphere in two to four years
Scroll down for video Cheshier told Spaceflight Now in an email: ‘The External Pallet was the largest object—mass-wise—ever jettisoned from the International Space Station at 2.9 tons ...
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Space station tosses 2.9-ton hunk of space junk overboard. It will stay in orbit for years.
Here’s how it works. The International Space Station got a little lighter last week. The orbiting lab discarded a 2.9-ton (2.6 metric tons) pallet of used batteries on Thursday morning (March 11 ...