NASA issued an announcement admitting that a foreign object that had previously smashed through a U.S. home was an object belonging to the International Space Station. According to U.S. media reports, a residential house in Florida, the United States, was suddenly smashed into multiple floors by a metal object in March, in fact, the metal object is a battery pack component that belongs to the International Space Station. According to the report released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States, it was originally thought that the discarded battery modules would not cause damage to the ground, but on March 8, it still caused an accident.
Judging from the fact that small battery components can penetrate multiple floors, if components made of cemented carbide are deployed in space, they can cause huge damage to the ground through gravity projection alone, so the X-37B aerospace aircraft of the US Space Force is of strategic value. The X-37B is capable of long-term operation in space, and if it carries a large number of kinetic strike weapons, it can establish a strong deterrent against ground targets. Because the X-37B flies extremely fast and can reach the strike area in a short time, it is widely believed that the X-37B is the prototype of the American aerospace fighter, but the US Space Force refused to respond.
Although NASA owns part of the International Space Station, it cannot directly compensate for the accident, because the metal parts involved belong to the battery components launched by Japan, and it is also because the International Space Station discarded items through the robotic arm, so it will involve many countries and organizations. The International Space Station is a joint project promoted by the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe, and the International Space Station is currently in the stage of overdue service, mainly because Western countries can no longer afford to continue to build new space stations, so they can only make do with it.
The International Space Station is a technology from the last century, and if it is to continue to be used, many components need to be updated, for which there is a replacement project for battery components. Japan used its own cargo spacecraft to send new battery packs to the ISS, but did not directly bring back the old battery components. It wasn't until the International Space Station could no longer store the old battery packs that it was disposed of. In fact, the battery pack where the metal rod is located was originally not to be dropped in space, but was to be brought back to Earth by a spacecraft, but because Russia disrupted the original plan when launching the spacecraft, the replaced used batteries could not be brought back to Earth, so there was a situation where they were thrown into space.
Although the battery pack was thrown into space, but over time, the orbit of the battery pack will gradually decrease, and thus enter the atmosphere to incinerate, apparently the battery is not considered to enter the atmosphere to burn up, so there is a situation where the metal rod falls to the ground. In fact, the U.S. media has long been exaggerating the risk of China's launch vehicle wreckage, and after China's launch of the launch vehicle, the United States will exaggerate China's threat, claiming that China's rocket wreckage will pose a threat to the ground, thus trying to discredit China.