European Space Agency engineer Andrea Boyd claimed the object could have come from an Indian rocket launching a satellite.
Boyd added that the engine would likely have been designed to fall back down to Earth. "It takes a lot of effort to get up to orbit, so the first and second and third stage [engines] usually fall off and end up in the Indian Ocean, so it's probably come from that with the currents and washed up on the beach," she said.dictates that every rocket program is responsible for safely disposing of its rocket parts.
"There is a United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, and they have an outer space treaty that everyone has signed saying that whoever launches something into space is responsible for it right until the very end," she continued. "The Australian Space Agency is looking into it and they are talking to our friends at the Indian Space Agency to try and collaborate on cleaning this up properly."Shortly after the object was found, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services and the Chemistry Centre of WA examined the object and found it poses no risk to the community. However, according to Boyd, "it might still have some residual fuel and you just don't want to get people touching that.
Australia has seen a number of high-profile space debris incidents, with the most well-known coming from NASA's first-ever space station, Skylab. In fact, WA Premier Roger Cook recently stated that the new object could end up at the WA Museum, which already houses a chunk ofMore recently, last year, a farmer discovered a chunk of metal on their farmland that turned out to be part of SpaceX's Crew-1 capsule. In an interview with
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