The U.S. military called the place of the fall of his companion UARS.
According to their calculations, the wreckage of the device will be submerged in two thousand miles to the South-East of Madagascar. Brazilian scientists, meanwhile, claim that in the sky over their country, you will see the entrance of the satellite in the dense layers of the atmosphere.
Despite clarification from the us, Europe anxiously looking at the evening sky in Italy, for example, in the North country residents recommended not to leave the house.
Initially, NASA outlined a fairly wide corridor of the falling debris between fifty sedmimi Parallels the Northern and southern hemispheres. It's almost all the continents as a whole. Therefore, the concern of Europeans understandable - after all, the Earth should fall fragments of the satellite, weighing 500 kg.
The Americans argue that the heavens will fall exactly debris - most portion of the apparatus, which, by the way, good-sized bus, must burn in the atmosphere. However, before the Land can fly about thirty fragments, including fuel tanks made of titanium.
It is noteworthy that such space debris in orbit is still a lot. And in the near future, scientists predict sputnika - in late October, for example, come from German orbit orbital telescope. It's unclear where he's going to fall. And debris will likely be much more than from the American machine - for example, to the Ground can fly a giant lens.
The UARS satellite was launched aboard space Shuttle Discovery in 1991 and worked in low-earth orbit with an altitude of approximately 600 km and an inclination of 57 degrees. Its main task was to study the upper atmosphere, in particular, causes of ozone holes. The mass of the spacecraft was more than six tons, length - 10 7 m.
Will fall to Earth unmanaged six ton satellite
Later, NASA decided to discontinue further operation of the satellite due to the lack of money, because the annual cost of the program UARS was more than ten million dollars.NASA experts proposed to remove the satellite from orbit due to one of the shuttles, but this was not done. Subsequently, the satellite, as already inferred from the building, was destroyed by an unknown subject. Experts believed that the probable cause of the destruction of UARS collision with a fragment of the Soviet satellite Kosmos-1275.
According to the materials Corespondenta and NTV
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