The huge metal cylinder found on a beach in Western Australia has now been identified by the Australian Space Agency as part of a rocket from another country.
The object, which was found around 150 miles north of Perth, was initially suggested to be from an Indian rocket dating back several decades.
The cylinder washed up on the beach in Western Australia. The object has now been identified as debris from the third stage of a polar satellite launch vehicle operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation.
A rocket from NASA's Artemis program. These often have several"stages", each with its own engine and fuel."The part we have is mostly the fuel containment vessel," Alice Gorman, an expert in the field of space archaeology at Flinders University, Australia, told local media"The third stage [of the rocket] ignites, burns until that fuel is gone, and the fourth stage is the one that actually gets into Earth orbit.
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