The company is looking for space debris in Australia.
Teams from the California company are going to Australia to see what is there after reports that parts of the Crew-1 Dragon spaceship landed in the southeast of the nation.
Benjamin Reed, senior director of SpaceX's human spaceflight program, told reporters that they had received reports of debris from a trunk.
During the launch phase, the cargo hold is unpressurized and supports Crew Dragon. Half of the trunk is powered by solar panels.
Crew-1 reentered Earth's atmosphere on May 2, 2021, and the trunk separated and reentered Australia on July 8, 2020. According to ABC Australia, at least two residents found charred, unfamiliar hardware on their large farm properties in recent weeks after reports of sonic booms.
Photos of the crew-1 mission to the International Space Station.
In line with most international space agencies, the United States and other companies that launch from American soil follow the government's Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices.
Reed emphasized that there were no injuries, no damage, and that if it was indeed SpaceX hardware, it was within an expected path of where things might go down.
Reed said that it is part of the process that they do with NASA and the FAA. We use models that are approved by the government to plan for these things.
The hardware falling to Earth has been verified before. The second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket was linked to the debris that ended up on a farm. The fall was confirmed by local authorities.
Reed told reporters that the company is working with the FAA, the U.S. State Department and the Australian Space Agency on coordinating the investigation.
Reed said, "We look for ways that we can improve things but again, this was within our analysis." We're looking into it.
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