A metallic ring weighing half a ton has fallen on a village in the African nation, with no casualties or damage reported on the ground
The Kenya Space Agency has dismissed a media report suggesting that the country demanded compensation over a sizable circular object β apparently a spacecraft fragment β that fell on a remote village in the African nation earlier this week. The authorities said a probe into where the metallic ring came from was still underway.
In a post on Twitter on Friday, the agency stressed thatΒ βinvestigations into the objectβs origin are still ongoing, and no official statement has been issued linking the debris to the Indian Space Research Organisation or any specific space mission.βΒ TheΒ agency advised the public toΒ βawait official findings.β
