Six-ton satellite due to crash back to Earth
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well at least we have that to look forward to this weekend
Its been said that this is going to be big as a refrigerator, and also not sure where it will hit yet.
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That is a possibility.
That is a possibility.
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ZDF has it (German) that NASA said that of the 5600 kg satellite of the size of a school bus (3 x 10 m), not all will burn up in the atmosphere, and 26 fragments of 500 kg in total will be scattered about a 800 km region somewhere on Earth.
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Parts of the satellite went down over Canada (Google-translated)
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NASA's dead six-ton satellite fell to Earth early Saturday morning, starting its fiery death plunge somewhere over the vast Pacific Ocean.
Details were still sketchy, but the U.S. Air Force's Joint Space Operations Center and NASA say that the bus-sized satellite first penetrated Earth's atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. That doesn't necessarily mean it all fell into the sea -- although most of it is believed to have burned up.
NASA's dead six-ton satellite fell to Earth early Saturday morning, starting its fiery death plunge somewhere over the vast Pacific Ocean.
Details were still sketchy, but the U.S. Air Force's Joint Space Operations Center and NASA say that the bus-sized satellite first penetrated Earth's atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. That doesn't necessarily mean it all fell into the sea -- although most of it is believed to have burned up.
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Lucky it burn up before it landed. View attachment 4605
