REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Lapan) states mysterious object falling from the Sumenep sky, Madura, East Java, is a fraction rocket Falcon 9.
The rocket is a driving force device that is used to launch communications satellites JCSAT16 Japan on August 14.
"We've been analyzing the object falling from the Madura's sky as a Falcon 9 rocket with serial number 41 730," Chief Lapan Thomas Djamaluddin told Republika.co.id on Monday (9/26).
Thomas said these rockets is a space junk. After analyzing it, Lapan concluded no hazardous materials found from object. "It was only a device for satellite launch, a cylindrical tube with a length of 1.5 meters and a diameter of 60 centimeters wide" he said.
According to Thomas, it will be quite dangerous if the space junk hit the Earth's object. "Space junk generally speed up to 200 kilometers per second," he said.
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