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The International Space Station Just Dropped a Tonne of Space Junk – Gizmodo Australia
The International Space Station released its largest piece of space debris ever with a pallet weighing over 2 tonnes.
Everyone’s attention may be taken up by the recent spacewalk but astronauts weren’t the only things that exited the International Space Station last week.
The ISS jettisoned its largest piece of space junk ever on March 11. The external pallet, containing old Nickel-Hydrogen batteries, weighed about 2.9 tonnes. This makes it the biggest object to be dropped from the ISS since 2007.
EP9, the external pallet from the HTV-9 cargo ship, was jettisoned from the ISS by the Canadarm-2 robot arm today,…
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