A discarded battery pack from the ISS space station crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday evening. This was stated by Simone Meyer, spokeswoman for the Center for Space Situational Awareness of the German Army. She could not say exactly where the package landed. “It’s probably mostly burned.”
The battery pack previously also flew over Germany. At 7:21 p.m. the package, which came from the west, flew at an altitude of 139 kilometers above the center of Germany. The package was also spotted above the Netherlands on social media.
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Various organizations already provided information about the battery pack on Thursday. There was concern that debris would end up in Germany, even though that would be highly unlikely. The center for environmental awareness in space warned about this in the evening.
The object is a pallet with nine discarded batteries from the ISS. The battery platform was about the size of a car and weighed about 2.6 tons. It docked from the ISS in March 2021 with the intention of burning up in the atmosphere.
