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Somewhere hurtling more than 200 miles above the planet's surface is one of Earth's newest satellites: a tool bag, and it's possible you might be able to spot it with a telescope or good pair of binoculars if you know where to look.The white, satchel-like tool bag slipped away from two astronauts during a rare, all-female spacewalk Nov. 1 as they performed maintenance on the International Space Station, according to social media posts on X (formerly Twitter) from scientists and other experts familiar with the situation.While there's no official word whether the tool bag contained a 10 mm socket wrench, the bag was spotted floating over Mount Fuji last week by Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. Now space junk, it has since been catalogued with the ID: 58229 / 1998-067WC.
From very early in my carer i was taught,when working at height to always ensure a dropped tool cant escape,at best your gonna need to climb down to retrieve it,at worst your gonna be retrieving it from someone's head/something very expensive,pity nasa staff didnt get the same training. QuoteSomewhere hurtling more than 200 miles above the planet's surface is one of Earth's newest satellites: a tool bag, and it's possible you might be able to spot it with a telescope or good pair of binoculars if you know where to look.The white, satchel-like tool bag slipped away from two astronauts during a rare, all-female spacewalk Nov. 1 as they performed maintenance on the International Space Station, according to social media posts on X (formerly Twitter) from scientists and other experts familiar with the situation.While there's no official word whether the tool bag contained a 10 mm socket wrench, the bag was spotted floating over Mount Fuji last week by Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. Now space junk, it has since been catalogued with the ID: 58229 / 1998-067WC.
Quote... during a rare, all-female spacewalk
... during a rare, all-female spacewalk