Satellite ROSAT comes down too!!!
Satellite ROSAT comes down too!!!
(Original title: "After UARS... ROSAT Comes Down - They Could Divert it But We Can't $Afford$ It").
[ ATTENTION: Also satellite ROSAT comes down to Earth. Maybe this is the beguining of a long list of similar events!! ].
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8785971/Second-giant-chunk-of-space-junk-heading-for-Earth.html
" Second giant chunk of space junk heading for Earth. A defunct German space telescope weighing over two tons is forecast to collide with Earth less than five weeks after a satellite the size of a bus hits the planet.
Today an American spacecraft called the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is expected to hit the Earth's surface, with a one in 3,200 chance it could hit someone. However a second satellite is set to smash into Earth next month and the odds are even shorter that it could come down in a populated area. The 2.4-ton Röntgensatellit, or ROSAT, has been spinning through space for 12 years after... more
(Original title: "After UARS... ROSAT Comes Down - They Could Divert it But We Can't $Afford$ It").
[ ATTENTION: Also satellite ROSAT comes down to Earth. Maybe this is the beguining of a long list of similar events!! ].
[ Text imported from:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8785971/Second-giant-chunk-of-space-junk-heading-for-Earth.html
" Second giant chunk of space junk heading for Earth. A defunct German space telescope weighing over two tons is forecast to collide with Earth less than five weeks after a satellite the size of a bus hits the planet.
Today an American spacecraft called the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is expected to hit the Earth's surface, with a one in 3,200 chance it could hit someone. However a second satellite is set to smash into Earth next month and the odds are even shorter that it could come down in a populated area. The 2.4-ton Röntgensatellit, or ROSAT, has been spinning through space for 12 years after... more
