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ISS Ditches 2.9-Ton Pallet of Batteries, Creating Its Most Massive Piece of Space Trash Alerts The external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries, photographed shortly after being released by the Canadarm2 robotic arm. The object was orbiting 265 miles (427 km) above Chile when this photo was taken from the ISS. Image: NASA Weighing 2.9 tons and traveling 4.8 miles per second, this heap of old batteries is now the heaviest single piece of garbage to be jettisoned from the Internatio...

The International Space Station discarded its largest piece of space junk to-date - a 2.9-ton pallet of nickel-hydrogen batteries. The junk is set to burn up in the atmosphere in the next two to four years.