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A Giant Piece of Space Station Trash Will Crash to Earth This Weekend

The pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries, photographed shortly after being released by the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
The pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries, photographed shortly after being released by the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
Photo: NASA

A 2.9-ton cargo pallet, once used for a critical battery upgrade mission on the International Space Station (ISS), is now approaching the end of its journey and is expected to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere in the coming days. – George Dvorsky Read More