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Space junk from old SpaceX missions may have landed in rural Australia. A piece of charred material reportedly left over from the reentry of the SpaceX spacecraft was found in the middle of a sheep paddock near Dalgety; The discovery followed an “explosion” heard by witnesses July 9 local time in the southeast of the country. SpaceX has yet to confirm whether the pieces were part of its Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft that managed to crash on May 2, 2021. That said, longtime space debris tracker Jonathan McDowell said in twitter (opens in a new tab) Friday (July 29) that Dalgety was actually under the re-entry projection of a piece of unstressed Dragon “stem”, dumped before re-entry. McDowell added that the photos showed that the debris came from one of the trunk fins. These fins are on the circumference of the rocket to aid aerodynamics during the launch phase of the mission. Related: SpaceX’s Crew-1 astronaut mission to the International Space Station in ...

China said it was tracking the wreckage of a large, newly launched rocket at the time reenter the earth’s atmosphere this weekend in what Beijing says will pose little risk to anyone on the ground. The Long March 5B rocket launched Sunday to deliver a laboratory module to the Chinese space station under construction, marking the third flight of China’s most powerful rocket since its maiden launch in 2020. As happened during its first two flights, the entire main core stage of the rocket – which is 100 feet (30 meters) long and weighs 22 tons (about 48,500 lb) – has reached low orbit and is expected to fall back to Earth after the atmosphere. friction drags it down, according to American experts. Ultimately, the rocket body will disintegrate as it falls through the atmosphere but is large enough that many chunks will likely survive re-entry into the debris rain over an area about 2,000 km (1,240 mi) long by about 70 km wide. based analysts said on Wednesday. The likely loc...