Piece of 'space junk' from International Space Station hits Florida home

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Hardware that was once used at the International Space Station hit a Florida home last month after surviving the trip through Earth's atmosphere, NASA confirmed.

confirmed on Wednesday that a 1.6-pound piece of hardware that was used at one time with the International Space Station hit a home in Naples, Florida, last month after surviving the trip through Earth's atmosphere.The agency did not release the exact address of the home impacted.According to

, the origins of what landed in Collier County can be traced back to March 2021. That's when the piece of equipment from the ISS was released, effectively becoming something referred to as 'space junk.'Space junk is a blanket term used to describe pieces of discarded man-made objects that are perpetually stuck in low Earth orbit above our planet. It includes things like defunct satellites, rocket fragments, or in our case, the no-longer needed equipment from the ISS.

 

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