NASA reveals details of a space object colliding with a house in Florida

NASA revealed that the mysterious object that crashed into the roof of a Florida home last month came from the International Space Station (ISS), and agency officials wrote, “Based on examination, the agency has determined that the debris is a strut of NASA flight support equipment used to mount batteries on Shipping platform.

According to what was reported by the “space” website, this house, located in Florida, USA, belongs to Alejandro Otero, as shortly after the incident that occurred on March 8, Otero said that he believed the violating object was part of a shipping pallet loaded with 5,800 pounds. (2,630 kilograms) of old batteries jettisoned from the International Space Station in March 2021, and he was right, according to a new NASA analysis of the object, conducted at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA officials explained that the cylindrical piece of space junk is made of a metal alloy called Inconel, which weighs 1.6 pounds (0.7 kg) and is 4 inches (10 cm) high and 1.6 inches (4 cm) wide.

Nickel-hydride batteries have been phased out after new lithium-ion versions were delivered to the International Space Station to upgrade the power supply.

The platform and batteries were expected to completely burn up in Earth's atmosphere, but that did not happen, NASA officials said in an update today.

“The International Space Station will conduct a detailed debris disposal and re-entry analysis investigation to determine why the debris remained and update the modeling and analysis,” they added.