**Space Junk Alert: Massive Reentry Over Pacific Ocean** – Latest Updates on Pallet from ISS hitting Earth on March 8, 2024! 🚀🌎 #SpaceJunk #ISS #PacificReentry
Cape Canaveral, Florida – Space debris from the International Space Station reentered Earth’s atmosphere on March 8, 2024, likely over the Pacific Ocean. This debris, originating from a discarded equipment pallet used to replace batteries in 2020, had been orbiting Earth for several years before its uncontrolled reentry. According to Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, approximately half a ton of fragments from the space junk would have survived the reentry process, potentially …