Tag: debris
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Otherworldly space debris found in Australian paddock belongs to Space X
The largest space debris to ever hit Australia was that from the 77-ton Sky Lab, America’s first space station, which tumbled down from orbit and scattered throughout western Australia in 1979.
August 5, 2022 -
Wreaks of Impending Chinese Shuttle Falls on Earth Without China’s Warning
Space watchers predicted that the majority of the rocket will disintegrate by the time it plunges into Earth’s atmosphere but there will be large-enough pieces of debris to make fiery re-entries that could rain anywhere over an area of 2,000 km (1,240 miles) long and by about 70 km (44 miles) wide.
July 31, 2022 -
Chandrayaan-2: NASA locates Vikram lander’s debris on moon surface
NASA in its statement said, 'Despite the loss, getting that close to the surface was an amazing achievement'.
December 3, 2019 -
LPG blast: Two killed, five injured in Aligarh
Two persons were killed and five others injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion in Aligarh town of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, police said. Many houses in the vicinity were damaged following the explosion in a house in Beema Nagar locality. Senior district and police officials rushed to the spot to oversee rescue operations …
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September 8, 2017 -
Gecko-inspired robotic gripper may help clean up space debris
Scientists from Stanford and NASA have designed a new gecko-inspired robotic gripper that can grab and dispose of space debris that pose a hazard to satellites, spacecraft and astronauts aboard those vehicles. About 500,000 pieces of human-made debris are whizzing around space, orbiting our planet at speeds up to 28,000 kilometres per hour. This debris …
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June 29, 2017 -
London tower debris fear shuts two Tube lines
Two London Tube lines were partly suspended on Saturday over fears that passengers could be hit by falling debris from the charred Grenfell Tower. The Hammersmith and City Line were suspended between Edgware Road and Hammersmith amid concerns that debris could fall on to the tracks, BBC reported. The Circle Line was also closed partly …
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June 17, 2017 -
Space missions likely to encounter growing threat of debris
Space missions are likely to encounter a growing threat of more debris, scientists warned on Tuesday at the 7th European Conference on Space Debris. The four-day meeting was held in the southern German city of Darmstadt, where the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) is located. Since 1957, over 4,900 space launches have led to an …
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April 19, 2017 -
‘Mars may have had rings, and they may come back’
Mars could once have had rings, and the red planet may regain them again, according to a new study. A new model developed by scientists at Purdue University in the US suggests that debris that was pushed into space from an asteroid slamming into Mars around 4.3 billion years ago alternates between becoming a planetary …
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March 22, 2017