The SpaceX object dropped in Australia.
Space debris found in the mountains of southern New South Wales, Australia, has been confirmed to belong to a SpaceX ship, Elon Musk’s company.
The pieces are believed to have been thrown from the unpressurized trunk. from a SpaceX capsule that detached before re-entering Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year.
On Thursday, Mick Miners and Jock Wallace, two sheep farmers from Dalgety Town, reported finding the object.
Farmers spoke with Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist from the Australian National Universitywho noted that his description matched the SpaceX spacecraft re-entering Earth’s atmosphere on July 9, twenty months after its launch in November 2020.
The truck of the Australian farmers who found the SpaceX object.
What happened to the Space X object that fell in Australia
Tucker’s initial assessment of the object, which is about 3 meters tall and weighs between 20 and 30 kilograms, was that it “looked like a burnt tree”. […] and then you get close to him, it’s almost like an alien obelisk“.
Heat-resistant materials, including woven carbon fiber, and indentation abrasion marks seemed to confirm the suspicions.. There was also what appeared to be a part number on the side.
The Australian Space Agency has now confirmed that the wreck came from a SpaceX ship. after the agency’s technical experts visited the site on Saturday.
“The agency has confirmed that the remains come from a SpaceX mission and continues to collaborate with its counterparts in the United States.as well as with other parts of the Commonwealth and with local authorities, as appropriate, “a spokesperson for the agency told British media. The Guardian.
One of the SpaceX pieces found in New South Wales, Australia. Photo / AFP
Since the first announcement was made, another piece of debris has been found, this one further westwith others that are expected to be discovered in the “coming weeks, months and even years”.
Another Elon Musk scandal: he would sleep with the wife of the Google founder
Google co-founder Sergey Brin divorced his wife, Nicole Shanahan, earlier this year, but it’s only now what caused the breakup is coming to light.
Brin would make that decision after he found out Shanahan allegedly had a brief romance at the end of last fall with tycoon Elon Muskthe newspaper reported The Wall Street newspaper.
The newspaper, citing people familiar with the matter, also indicated that the romance between Musk and Shanahan ended the Tesla leader’s longstanding friendship with the Google co-founder.
Ellón Musk. He would have betrayed the founder of Google, Sergey Brin.
The newspaper remembers it Musk acknowledged that for years he has been visiting Brin regularly at his home in California’s Silicon Valley.
A friendship that extended to companies, when during the 2008 economic crisis, Brin contributed around $ 500,000 to Teslaa time when the luxury electric vehicle company was looking to ramp up its production.
According to sources, cited by the Washington Street Journal, tensions between the two tycoons have increased in recent monthsto the point that Brin ordered his financial advisors to sell his personal investments in Musk’s companies.
Source: Clarin
