Four objects have been found that may be part of the Falcon 9 rocket. Rocket shards are not a threat to people – the Polish Space Agency (Polsa) said on Monday. Subsequent fragments of the rocket can be located in a belt about 100 kilometers wide passing through more than half of Poland.
Polsa sent a message on Monday in connection with the collapse of objects that could come from the Falcon 9 rocket remains observed over Poland.
The agency summed up that currently four objects were found that could be part of the Falcon 9 rocket. Three of these fragments were found on February 19: in the bailiffs the object fell in the warehouse of electrical equipment, in Wirach the object was found in the forest, and the object fell on the field and plum. In turn, in Szamotuły, on February 21, an object was found on the edge of the forest.
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All objects were reported and secured by the police and the prosecutor's office. Proceedings are underway.
“According to the information obtained from Spacex, the owner of the Falcon 9 rocket, potential rags of the rocket do not pose a threat to people, they do not show radioactive properties,” Polsa said.
The agency commented that if someone knows about subsequent elements that can come from the Falcon 9 rocket, the police should first be notified.
– Polsa is in constant contact with the police and takes action on this matter on an ongoing basis – said agency spokeswoman Agnieszka Gapys.
Fragments can be even in the middle of the country
Possible, subsequent fragments of the rocket can be located in a belt about 100 km wide passing through more than half of Poland. “Such a large area is due to the fact that the elements of the rocket entering the atmosphere can behave in different ways. Their flight track depends on many factors, including: mass, size and shape of the object, orientation in space and the physical properties of the atmosphere in the given moment.
It is even more difficult to predict whether the remains of the object will be completely burned in the atmosphere, as accurate information about the materials from which such objects are built are not available. “Currently, there are no international regulations that would oblige institutions/companies to provide such data. Polsa will postulate on the international forum that such regulations are introduced” – we read in a statement.
On Wednesday before five o'clock in the morning, a member of the Falcon 9 r/b rocket from Spacex entered the atmosphere over the atmosphere. A member of the rocket with a mass of about 4 tons came from the SpaceX mission Starlink Group 11-4, which launched on February 1 from the air base in California.
Bailiffs. Monitoring from a warehouse, where an unidentified object was foundElectro-hurt. Aleksander Winter. Bailiffs branches
A second COPV tank from Falcon 9 rocket was found in the WyrachRaccytomania/Adrian Szermer
Source of the main photo: KW PSP Poznań