FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoSpaceX satellites half the size of pickup trucks are falling from the skythenarwhal.caexternal-linkmessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
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minus-squareSreudianFlip@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-24 months agoOne fell in a farmer’s field in Saskatchewan. Dude got a hassle, some publicity, and a nominal fee of a grand or something. edit: here’s a mastodon thread where astronomer Sam Lawler lives nearby and visits the site with media: SpaceX wreckage in Saskatchewan
minus-squareIconoclast@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoIt wasn’t from a starlink satellite though. which the U.S. aerospace company SpaceX later admitted was part of a cargo trunk for its Crew Dragon spacecraft. Source
minus-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-24 months agoA grand? Then I’m keeping it. I can make more as a roadside tourist attraction. Or maybe I sell it to the Chinese or Bezos or something. You want your toy back, Musk? Pay up, you cheap bastard!
One fell in a farmer’s field in Saskatchewan. Dude got a hassle, some publicity, and a nominal fee of a grand or something.
edit: here’s a mastodon thread where astronomer Sam Lawler lives nearby and visits the site with media:
SpaceX wreckage in Saskatchewan
It wasn’t from a starlink satellite though.
Source
Cool thanks!
A grand? Then I’m keeping it. I can make more as a roadside tourist attraction. Or maybe I sell it to the Chinese or Bezos or something. You want your toy back, Musk? Pay up, you cheap bastard!