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Trash From the ISS May Have Hit a House In Florida
mardi 2 avril 2024, 09:00 , par Slashdot
Otero's likely encounter with space debris was first reported by WINK News, the CBS affiliate for southwest Florida. Since then, NASA has recovered the debris from the homeowner, according to Josh Finch, an agency spokesperson. Engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center will analyze the object 'as soon as possible to determine its origin,' Finch told Ars. 'More information will be available once the analysis is complete.' In a post on X, Otero said he is waiting for communication from 'the responsible agencies' to resolve the cost of damages to his home. If the object is owned by NASA, Otero or his insurance company could make a claim against the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act, according to Michelle Hanlon, executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi. 'It gets more interesting if this material is discovered to be not originally from the United States,' she told Ars. 'If it is a human-made space object which was launched into space by another country, which caused damage on Earth, that country would be absolutely liable to the homeowner for the damage caused.' This could be an issue in this case. The batteries were owned by NASA, but they were attached to a pallet structure launched by Japan's space agency. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/02/0039235/trash-from-the-iss-may-have-hit-a-house-in-flori...
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