A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky. NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is "very low." Most of the 5,400-pound (2,450-kilogram) satellite will burn up upon reentry,according to NASA. But some pieces are expected to survive. The...
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” according to the NASA statement. “It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any more certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 24 to 36 hours." [Photos of NASA's Huge Falling Satellite UARS]...
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Residents in Kyiv were left baffled after a bright object was observed in the sky around 22:00 local time. The object was at first thought to be a NASAreentering Earth's atmosphere, but the space agency responded that the satellite in question was still in orbit at the time of ...
This is a day earlier than previously anticipated. Pieces of the 6.5-ton satellite are expected to survive the fiery plunge and hit our planet, but NASA does not know exactly where. There was word today that increased activity from the Sun has hastened the decay of the satellite’s or...
These wavelengths of light were detected by NASA’s Infrared Astronomical Satellite, orIRAS, which operated for 10 months in 1983 and was managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. A survey telescope that imaged the entire sky, IRAS was able to see the infrared emission...
Running about a week late because of stormy weather, the first of the two remaining missions got off to a picture-perfect start at 9 p.m. EDT Sunday with launch from Rocket Lab's picturesque Mahia, New Zealand, launch site. An artist's impression of a NASA TROPICS satellite studying a ...
(Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky) Overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday (April 12 to April 13), the Artemis 1 team powered up the core stage of the mission's huge Space Launch System rocket as well as its Orion spacecraft, NASA officialswrote in an update Wednesday. ...