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Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So they saved the cost of paying Japan to launch one more HTV mission, and all it's going to cost is whatever this guy receives? It just seems out of character for NASA to leave things to chance like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I assume JAXA ordered a fixed number of HTVs, those were built and then the construction line was closed down, probably before 2018. Just ordering another one was probably not possible.