NASA’s UARS satellite weighing over six tons will come down this month uncontrolled
| Published on September 8, 2011 8:20 am PT – By Jim Duran – Writer – Article Editor and Approved – Warren Miller |
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(TheWeatherSpace.com) — NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is going to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere late this month or early next.
NASA announced on Wednesday that this will be uncontrolled, which means they do not know yet where it will go.
Furthermore, NASA states most of the satellite will burn up in the atmosphere, but there will be pieces that make it to the ground. Being this is an uncontrollable re-entry, it could threaten interests on the ground and in the air.
Some predictions paint September 26th as the day the satellite comes down. NASA will update weekly until the final four days of the expected re-entry and then push the updates to daily.
from: http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-09_08_2011_uarsreentrynasa.html