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| Subject: Statist satellite set to crash to earth but they don't have a clue as to where Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:09 pm | |
| A 20-YEAR-OLD satellite, pictured, that measured the ozone layer is expected to crash back to Earth late this week, but NASA says it does not know where it will fall.
The US space agency stressed that the risk to public safety from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) was ''extremely small'' and said that most, but not all, of the gear would burn up on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
''Re-entry is expected on [Friday], plus or minus a day. The re-entry of UARS is advancing because of a sharp increase in solar activity since the beginning of this week,'' NASA said in a brief update on its website on Friday.
''Safety is NASA's top priority,'' it added noting that, throughout history, there had been ''no confirmed reports of an injury resulting from re-entering space objects''.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/satellite-set-to-crash-to-earth-20110917-1kezd.html |
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