NASA's Defunct Satellite Set to Re-Enter Earth's Atmosphere in Uncontrolled Deorbit
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A retired NASA satellite, the size of a shipping container, re-entered Earth's atmosphere overnight, but the US space agency has yet to reveal whether it burnt up or where it came down. The 600-pound craft, with a one in 2,500 chance of killing someone, was retired in 2018 after suffering a communication failure. Satellite-tracking data suggests it may have crashed in Chad, Libya, or Sudan, but this is yet to be confirmed. The dead craft is NASA's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), which was tasked with observing solar flares when it launched on February 5, 2002.
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