It is expected to hit the earth within 4 years, but the battery with a kinetic energy of 20 tons of TNT equivalent was abandoned by the space station

In March 2021, a major event occurred on the International Space Station. A battery on the National Space Station was discarded. The weight of this battery is not the size of the battery we usually use. The weight of this battery is close to 3 tons.

The aerospace department of the United States claimed that a battery weighing nearly 3 tons was thrown from the International Space Station, and that the battery would return to the atmosphere within a few years and burn up by itself, but an astronomer said that this huge battery, look It doesn't look like the kind that burns out on its own.

Many people are interested in this, because if this battery explodes, the energy generated is equivalent to more than 20 tons of TNT. If it is really said by the astronomer, if it falls on the earth where there are people, it will be troublesome. It will cause a lot of damage, and the location where the battery fell is impossible to estimate.

Generally, human manned aircraft will have an estimated landing location when they land. The reason for this is also very simple, that is, human aircraft have engines, and generally fall in the uninhabited Pacific Ocean, which will not hurt people at all. Yes, if an uncontrolled battery falls freely, if it does fall into a crowded place, it is dangerous, the damage to the building is small, and the injury is big.

What we can do now is to hope that this battery will not be dropped in crowded places, even in the wilderness. If it hits human buildings, it will be troublesome. Who will pay for this responsibility? is a difficult problem.

In fact, the space station has thrown garbage many times, because the garbage generated on it cannot be cleared and transported. The space station threw garbage once four years ago, although the weight was very small and the density was low. It is completely different from this time. A garbage disposal has set a new record. If nothing happens this time, there will definitely be another garbage disposal incident.

Some researchers said that there is a lot of space junk now, and a lot of junk is revolving around the earth, and many of them are of great concern to prevent them from being found when they fall, hurting innocent people, and the power of space junk is huge. , a small piece of space junk will destroy the human aircraft, which will lead to the direct scrapping of human aircraft.

Friends who often pay attention to the universe may also know that there are incidents of space junk causing damage to aircraft every year. If space junk continues to increase, our aircraft will completely lose orbit, making us completely unable to get out of the earth.

The current space station is more than ten years old and will be eliminated one day. Now it is not only necessary to protect the environment of the earth, but also the environment of space needs human protection. With the development of our country, it is expected that after more than 10 years, our own In this way, there will be two space stations for human beings. At that time, the chances of entering space will gradually increase, and human’s understanding of the universe will be further deepened. It is worth looking forward to this aspect alone.

All in all, China's space station is very different from the international version of the space station. Although the international space station is larger than our national space station, our space station has a better observation angle, and our space station is open to the outside world. It does not exclude other powerful countries. In this way, the technological progress of mankind is inevitable.