Space junk rained down on Saskatchewan farmland twice in 2024, and no one seems able to explain why the debris failed to burn up in the atmosphere.

Last April, Saskatchewan farmer Barry Sawchuk found a big chunk of space debris on his land near Ituna, just west of Yorkton, that turned out to be part of a Space X rocket. 

The second time was on Dan Kennedy's farm, about 15 kilometres southeast of Hodgeville, Sask. Kennedy's son, Travis, found the panel, which is about the size of a laptop computer…