Space junk made an emergency landing in a luxurious country in North Carolina. A team of landscapers working at The Glamping Collective, a mountaintop resort near Asheville in Haywood County, found a large, mysterious object on May 22. NASA confirmed it was part of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, which is scheduled to reach the International … Read more
Space junk made an emergency landing in a luxurious country in North Carolina. A team of landscapers working at The Glamping Collective, a mountaintop resort near Asheville in Haywood County, found a large, mysterious object on May 22. NASA confirmed it was part of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, which is scheduled to reach the International … Read more
A piece of metal found on a remote trail at a luxury camping resort in North Carolina was from a SpaceX Dragon capsule, NASA said, confirming that the mysterious object was yet another piece of space junk that recently landed on Earth. The debris came from the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that had reentered Earth’s atmosphere … Read more
The summary Last month, a large piece of space debris was discovered in North Carolina. NASA has confirmed it came from a SpaceX capsule that traveled to the International Space Station and returned in March. The piece came from a part of the vehicle that was discarded and expected to burn up in the atmosphere. … Read more
The trunk, located at the base of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, beneath where the astronauts sit, is typically used to transport cargo. It is covered in solar panels that provide power “during flight and on station,” according to SpaceX’s website. That part of the vehicle is jettisoned shortly before the capsule reenters Earth’s atmosphere. NASA … Read more
Source: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study led by a UC Riverside atmospheric scientist predicts that uncontrolled carbon emissions will cause tropical rainstorms to move north in the coming decades. This would have a major impact on agriculture and economies in the equatorial areas. The northward rainfall shift would be caused by complex changes in the … Read more
The UK’s largest trade union and financial backer of Labor staged a protest on Thursday and published an open letter calling for a reconsideration of the ban on oil and gas extraction. The letter was signed by almost 200 local businesses from Scottish towns that rely on the oil and gas industry. By means of … Read more
Stay up to date with free updates Simply log in to the Oil and gas industry myFT Digest — straight to your inbox. The boss of one of Britain’s largest independent oil and gas producers has said the company is “very actively” looking for opportunities abroad, as he likened navigating the country’s tax regime to … Read more
Image caption, Surfers in Aberdeen protest on the beach calling for an end to new oil and gas permits Item information Author, Kevin Keane Role, BBC Scotland environmental correspondent June 26, 2024 Updated 7 hours ago “Do you support new oil and gas permits, yes or no?” That is the binary question at the heart … Read more
NASA has confirmed that pieces of debris found throughout the North Carolina mountains are the remains of SpaceX Crew Dragon hardware that re-entered the atmosphere in May 2024. The largest piece of debris was found on May 22 along a mountain resort hiking trail; it was about the size of a standard car hood and … Read more