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Fabian Zander, Senior Research Fellow in Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern Queensland

Space debris is coming down more frequently. What are the chances it could hit someone or damage property?

Brad Tucker, Author provided

In the past week alone, we’ve seen two separate incidents of space debris hurtling back to Earth in unexpected places.

On Saturday there was the uncontrolled re-entry of a Chinese Long March 5B rocket over Malaysia. Yesterday outlets reported on some spacecraft parts that turned up in regional New South Wales – now confirmed to be from a SpaceX Crew-1 mission.

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