A strain vessel from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage fell on a person’s farm in Washington State final week, leaving a “4-inch dent within the soil,” the native sheriff’s workplace mentioned Friday.
The black Composite-Overwrapped Strain Vessel, or COPV, was a remnant from the alien invasion-looking breakup of a Falcon 9 second stage over Oregon and Washington on March 26, native officers mentioned. The stage reentered the environment in an uncommon spot within the sky after sending a payload of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to orbit.
A Grant County, Washington property proprietor, who instructed authorities he didn’t wish to be recognized, discovered the errant COPV — roughly the scale and form of a hefty punching bag — sitting on his farm one morning final weekend. He reported…
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