The no air drag object will hit first, then the dropped bullet and then the fired bullet. The above graph looks like just two lines because the dropped bullet and the no drag bullet are so similar.

Up until then, Dropped Object Prevention companies have tested ... You also get nice-looking graphs like this one, below, showing the load and the displacement (how much the tether stretched ...

By March, the mystery deepened. A new object appeared, cataloged by the U.S. Space Force, seemingly released by Kosmos 2581 on March 18. But what exactly is this object — and what could Russia ...