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Wreckage everywhere and potentially toxic substance. Spacex’s spacecraft was more than an astonishing fall in the Turkish and Caicos islands.
The sun had already been on January 16 when a spaceship became a ball of flames over the North Atlantic Ocean, near the Turkish and Caicos islands in the Atlantic Ocean, above the Dominican Republic.
It was the Spacex Starship spacecraft exploding. Starship and the ELON Musk company Super Heavy are the largest and most powerful rockets ever built.
“I have never seen colors like that in the sky,” he told the Lori Kaineresident of Providenciales, the main island of the Archipelago of Turks and Caicos. “At first, I thought it was a plane exploding.” Kaine recalls a deafening noise.
He says that, more than a spectacular fall, the starship explosion caused traces that caused consequences in his own life.
A mysterious cable had fallen into its entrance, as well as a kind of broken hexagonal tiles, probably part of the Starship thermal shield.
“I thought, ‘ok, this is crazy’ – because the starship pieces are on the roads of the island and on the beach,” he recalls.
Walls of the ship were found on all the beaches of Providenciales, as well as “from South Caicos to West Caicos, which essentially covers all of the Caicos Banks”, in various sights and even in people’s homes, said Alizee ZimmermannExecutive Director of the Turks and Caicos Reef Fund Association.
“A report of minor damage to a vehicle located in South Caicos” is also being investigated.
Spacex – unlike NASA and some of the aerospace industry competitors – adopts a strategy designated by “rapid iterative development“, Explains CNN, which makes the company accept the risks added during the test flights.
“I like the releases and what Spacex CEO Elon Musk is doing, but I think he should be Cleaning“, He also commented to American television Amos hatchesowner of a car rental company in Providenciales. It also ensures that “there have been no major warnings” regarding the potential risk of releases.
“We are just trying to appeal to at least help us finance the cleaning of volunteers,” added Zimmermann.
Kaine estimates that there is now “about 91kg” of debris in her collection, stored in garbage bags labeled with the place where she collected the debris. And there is still much more to collect on the beaches. There are debris that give to the coast from the oceans.
“Spatial objects can sometimes contain hazardous materials that can cause serious health damage“, On Facebook, the Turkish and Caicos National Security Secretariat, in a warning that residents are recommended that they do not touch the wreckage.
A to fasten, For example, it is a type of propeller used in some spacecraft that can cause nausea, vomiting, inflammation of the nerves and even coma after exposure.
“Any type of fuel will have a large amount of chemical energy Inside, ”he says Marlon SorgeExecutive Director of the Center for Studies of Orbital and Reentry Defenders of The Aerospace Corporation.
“Even if it is not as dangerous as the hydrazine, if we touch or approach it, we are in trouble – remains volatile, like the Gasoline“He added. “And there are other things aboard spaceships, such as batteries“.
Added that it is possible that Tanks of fuel From whole rockets survive the fall. “If they are weakened, if we touch them, explode“.
Now, the inhabitants ask for help: “All this requires a lot of coordination and a good amount of financing – and both are limited here.”
