The NASA ordered the astronauts of the International Space Station leave a charge space junk from 2.9 tons, the largest in history.
The lab in orbit threw away a pallet of used batteries of this large size on Thursday morning, March 11, he said. Gizmodo the spokeswoman for the NASA Leah Cheshier.
It is expected that the space junk go back to land- in two or four years and burns “without damaging the atmosphere,” but not everyone is convinced that this is the case. Likewise, the US Air Force space command will be in charge of locating it.
Have already been replaced
This cargo was ejected because, in May 2020, a cargo ship of the Japanese space agency JAXA, It came with six new lithium ion batteries to replace it.
Since there is no cargo ship to transport it, space debris will move thanks to gravity until it enters the atmosphere.
Space junk is becoming a growing scourge near our planet. A study by astronomers at the University of Warwick found that more than 75% of the detected wastes did not match the catalog of active satellites
Even the International Space Station, in orbit at a lower altitude than the area under study, had to perform an evasive maneuver in front of a piece of space debris that was too close for its safety.
Studies remain the space junk and create algorithms that enable better prediction and identification of different types of waste and monitoring, in addition to supporting the creation of satellites that return to land- after its useful life
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