2023-11-16 17:20:11
A toolbox is orbiting the Earth following being lost in space by two ISS astronauts at the beginning of November. The TF1 news tells you and reassures you: it is not going to fall on our heads.
It’s an interstellar ball whose images you can discover in the TF1 video at the top of this article. In the middle of tinkering outside the International Space Station, two NASA astronauts, Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, carried out a very usual maintenance operation at the beginning of November outside the ISS, 400 kilometers away. above our heads. But a moment of inattention and one of them let slip her state-of-the-art toolbox, the value of which is estimated at 100,000 euros. The bag went into space and is now circling our planet at a speed of 28,000 kilometers per hour.
According to the American media Earthskyit is even possible to see the tool bag from Earth. “It is surprisingly bright (for a toolkit), shining just below the limit of visibility with the naked eye, at a magnitude of regarding +6. This means that some skywatchers should be able to spot it at using binocularshe assures.
We breathe: there is no danger
In orbit around the earth, the runaway box fortunately presents no danger. “This toolbox poses no risk to humans. And when it re-enters the atmosphere, it will burn. So, nothing will happen to the ground”explains Pierre Omaly, space debris expert at CNES, in the TF1 report.
Let us add, finally, that this is not the first time that clumsy astronauts have misplaced an object in space. In 2008, another toolbox escaped the vigilance of a team. Two years earlier, it was a spatula that took an interplanetary trip.
The editorial staff of TF1info | Report Léa Merlier and Sofiane Cherifi
1700156714
#VIDEO #Toolbox #lost #ISS #interstellar #ball #costing #euros
