The Kenya Space Agency (KSA) soon identified it as a separation ring from a rocket. They have not yet determined its origin. While KSA assured people that the ring does not pose any further threat ...

The object has since been identified as a “fragment of a space object,” the Kenya Space Agency said in a statement Wednesday. The KSA said it has taken custody of the object that landed in the ...

Initial reports from the Kenya ... of the space debris, “We could have a major space junk event that will mean that we can’t launch beyond low-Earth orbit and we trap ourselves on Earth. The simplest ...

Officials with the Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia have reported that a large metallic ring fell from the sky on Dec. 30 , crashing "red-hot" into Mukuku village, in Makueni county ...

Shortly before the turn of the year, a 500-kilogram metal ring crashed in Kenya, apparently from ... and that part of this piece of space debris could have crashed earlier, which could then ...

On Wednesday, Mukuku Village in Kenya ... it would have certainly killed them, Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and leading space debris ...

The issue of space trash has risen in tandem with increased spatial traffic. Kenya Space Agency (KSA) said the object, a metallic ring roughly 2.5 metres (8 feet) in diametre and weighing some 500 ...

Jan. 1 (UPI) --The Kenya Space Agency on Wednesday identified a large metal object that fell from space earlier this week to likely be a separation ring from a rocket launch. The space agency ...