Amira Shehata wrote Tuesday, November 21, 2023 04:00 PM The world will witness a strange scene in the sky, where it can be seen Tool bag The lost bag dropped by astronauts during a spacewalk. NASA’s Yasmine Moghbeli and Laural O’Hara lost the bag while trying to repair a solar panel on the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this month.
According to what the British newspaper “Daily Mail” reported, it has since been spotted by astronomers, who say that because the instrument cluster is so bright, it should be visible to people on Earth if they have binoculars or a telescope, and the bag can be seen between the clock. 18:24 and 18:34 GMT tomorrow, as long as the weather does not obscure the view, that is, between 8:24 and 8:34 Egypt time.
But it shouldn’t be too cloudy at that time, and perhaps the best time to see it will be on November 24 between 7:30 and 7:41 pm.
The bag, which orbits the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour, is classified as space junk and bears the identification number 58229/1998-067WC.
The astronauts had planned to remove a communications device called a radio frequency array, but they did not have enough time for a six-hour spacewalk, and it is believed the bag drifted away during that process.
The instrument cluster should be able to be spotted on a clear night “with good binoculars,” and mission controllers joked that it should have been equipped with Apple’s AirTag tracking device so it could be picked up on the crew’s next orbit.
