Some of you outside the UK may not receive the news that a large, barnacle-clad object has been recovered by coastguards off the Scilly Isles (off the SW extremity of England). A
news report from this morning subscribes to the initial theory that it is an inter-stage section from a failed Falcon 9 rocket launch at Cape Canaveral in June this year.
This evening, however, that has been challenged on the basis that - on closer examination of its paint scheme - it is from another Falcon 9 that was successfully launched in September 2014. In that case the object would have fallen into the sea from a much higher altitude 14 months ago, and then carried on the Gulfstream (North Atlantic Drift) to Blighty.