Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara lost the bag on November 1 during a spacewalk. According to the experts, searching for the bag that orbits the Earth is not as complicated as it seems in this case. The bag is reflective, making it almost visible to the naked eye. With binoculars you should be able to find the lost bag to noticeUSA Today reported.
It is useful to know approximately where the bag is located. According to NASA, the bag will pass by two to four minutes earlier than the International Space Station (ISS). Various websites indicate when the ISS can be seen from the Netherlands calculated.
Waste mountain in space
The bag is now officially registered as space waste. According to estimates by the European Space Agency, more than 36 thousand objects larger than 10 centimeters were floating through space in September this year.
Here is how the tool bag fell:
In the atmosphere
In 2008, astronauts also lost a tool bag. It orbited the planet for months before bursting into flames in the atmosphere. Experts expect this to happen with this tool bag as well.
2023-11-11 17:41:49
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