US EditionSpaceX Rocket Debris Found in Poland After Uncontrolled Reentry
- A large object believed to be part of a Falcon 9 rocket fell near a major city in Poland, as confirmed by the Polish Space Agency on February 19, 2025, between 04:46 and 04:48 a.m.
- The object, weighing around four tonnes, was discovered by Adam Borucki in Komorniki, Poland.
- Dr. Jonathan McDowell stated that uncontrolled re-entries of large rockets are rare and potentially dangerous, and confirmed that the debris has been reported in Poland and possibly Ukraine.
- The Polish Space Agency confirmed an uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 rocket stage over Poland at 04:46 to 04:48 a.m. On February 19, 2025.
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1-meter-wide SpaceX rocket debris falls in Poland
On February 19, at around 05:30 Lithuanian time, a flaming object lit up the skies of northern Europe. At around 11:00, Adam Borucki was surprised to find what he thought was a charred container measuring approximately 1.5m x 1m outside his warehouse in Komorniki, Poland. Polish police, working with the Polish space agency Polsa, determined that the unidentified object was debris from a Falcon 9 rocket manufactured by SpaceX, the BBC reports.
Another unidentified object may have fallen from sky in Poland, police say
An unidentified object was found in northwestern Poland on Thursday, a police spokesperson said, as Poland's space agency probes whether similar objects discovered in the country on Wednesday came from Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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