“A Michigan family was shocked to find a space satellite in their yard Saturday morning,” reports a local TV station:
Nancy Mumby-Welke shared the video on Facebook, walking up to a satellite lying on its side. “You never know what’s going to happen,” Welke says in the video. “This baby fell out of the sky and landed in our yard,” she went on to say.
According to the Gratiot County Herald, Welke heard the crash around 8:45 a.m. just before they were going to let their horses out. “Thank God none of the horses were out and it didn’t land on the house,” Welke explained in the video. Welke says when she walked up to it, the satellite was still humming and whirring…
The Herald says Samsung representatives will pick up the equipment from the Welkes’ property.
In an announcement last week Samsung said their satellite “pushes the boundaries of innovation.” That announcement also promised a “bold, out-of-this-world mission… demonstrating the pioneering spirit of its brand and setting a new standard for the potential of mobile technology.”
The announcement said the satellite “will showcase the strength of Samsung’s innovations and how it continues to design products that make what was previously impossible, possible.” And it quotes their chief marketing officer for Europe as promising “we will show that amazing things continue to happen using Samsung technology.”
In a statement to the Detroit Free Press, Samsung blamed the “early soft landing” during the satellite’s planned descent on the weather. “We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.”
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