As the New York Times reported at the time, the Kenya Space Agency identified the "red-hot" object as a piece of space junk that survived reentry, indicating that it was still trying to identify the ...
Officials are now investigating the origin of the space debris, which has drawn attention to the growing issue of hazardous materials orbiting Earth. The Kenya Space Agency confirmed in a statement ...
A piece of space debris weighing more than 1,000 pounds crash-landed in Kenya last week. The Kenya Space Agency says the metallic ring is about 8 feet in diameter, and they believe it's a ...
“There are many pieces of debris in space and one cannot be 100 per cent certain which will fall where,” the agency said. “However, most debris burns up in the atmosphere, and incidents like ...
The KSA said they were working to identify the piece's origin. Previous examples of space debris hitting Earth This is not the first time a space shuttle's separated part has hit the Earth's surface.
The space debris is just one of several pieces that have plummeted back to the planet. However, experts are more worried about the growing number of objects circling our world. Tens of thousands ...
As companies accelerate satellite launches and other orbital operations, the issue of excessive space debris is becoming an inevitable consequence. After all, what goes up must eventually come down.
In a post on X on Friday, the agency stressed that "investigations into the object's origin are still ongoing, and no official statement has been issued linking the debris to the Indian Space Research ...
NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there? Is the ...
littering an already crowded space with large chunks of space debris. The cause remains unknown, but the event has reignited serious concerns about the increasing accumulation of space junk in Low ...
The Mukuku village in Kenya's Makueni County had an unexpected visitor on its doorstep- a massive space debris that crash-landed. In a statement posted on X, the Kenya Space Agency (KSA) said on ...