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UARS has landed!
You're safe! UARS landed around midnight EST. The map above shows the path the satellite mostly likely took before it hit the ground early this morning. NASA is still unsure about exactly where it hit, but speculates it was somewhere in the ocean along the green path above since no one reported seeing the crash.
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NASA space junk scientists believe that all — or nearly all — of the
parts of their 20-year-old dead satellite safely plunged into the
Pacific Ocean, likely missing land. But if their estimates are off,
by only five minutes or so, fiery pieces could have fallen on parts
of northwestern North America.
No injuries or damage have been reported on land, which NASA
officials said was a good indication the satellite went into the
ocean.
That doesn't necessarily mean it all fell into the sea. Some debris
could have fallen over areas such as Portland, Ore.; Seattle;
Calgary, Alberta; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, said Jonathan
McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
MORE: http://www.sanduskyregister.com/washington/news/2011/sep/24/satellite-likely-crashes-ocean
UARS hit the Earth's surface early on Saturday, more than eight hours later than expected.
NASA scientists thought that it fell largely over water and that no one was probably hurt by the falling debris.
The agency did not give a more specific location in a midday update on its website, which also said officials were not aware of any reports of injuries or property damage. Most of the spacecraft was believed to have burned up.
The bus-sized satellite first penetrated Earth's atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, according to NASA and the US Air Force's Joint Space Operations Center. But that doesn't necessarily mean it all fell into the sea.
NASA's earlier calculations had predicted that the 20-year-old former climate research satellite would fall over a 500-mile (800-kilometer) swath and could hit land.
Because the descent began over the ocean and given the lack of any reports of people being hit, that “gives us a good feeling that no one was hurt,” but officials didn't know for certain, NASA spokesman Steve Cole told the Associated Press.
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NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) hit the Earth last night.
NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite UPDATES: “The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California said the satellite entered the atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean, off the west coast of the United States. The precise re-entry time and location of any debris impacts are still being determined. NASA is not aware of any reports of injury or property damage.” NASA wrote at 2:37 p.m. EDT (6:37 p.m. UTC).
UPDATE: “Because of the satellite’s orbit, any surviving components of UARS should have landed within a zone between 57 degrees north latitude and 57 degrees south latitude. It is impossible to pinpoint just where in that zone the debris landed, but NASA estimates the debris footprint to be about 500 miles [804.7 kilometers] long.”
UPDATE: “We extend our appreciation to the Joint Space Operations Center for monitoring UARS not only this past week but also throughout its entire 20 years on orbit,” said Nick Johnson, NASA’s chief scientist for orbital debris, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. “This was not an easy re-entry to predict because of the natural forces acting on the satellite as its orbit decayed. Space-faring nations around the world also were monitoring the satellite’s descent in the last two hours and all the predictions were well within the range estimated by JSpOC.”
UPDATE: “DoD’s Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg AFB, CA, has assessed that NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite reentered the atmosphere sometime between 0323 and 0509 GMT on 24 September. During this period the satellite passed over Canada, the African continent, and the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The mid-point of that ground-track and a possible reentry location is 31 N latitude and 219 E longitude.”
The $750 million satellite, weighing six tons, first penetrated Earth’s atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it all fell into the sea, said NASA and the U.S. Air Force’s Joint Space Operations Center.
MORE: http://www.bellenews.com/2011/09/24/world/where-did-the-satellite-land-last-night/
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Washington, September 25: NASA's defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) has plunged to Earth but US space agency officials do not know where it landed.
UARS hit the Earth's surface early on Saturday, more than eight hours later than expected.
NASA scientists thought that it fell largely over water and that no one was probably hurt by the falling debris.
The agency did not give a more specific location in a midday update on its website, which also said officials were not aware of any reports of injuries or property damage. Most of the spacecraft was believed to have burned up.
The bus-sized satellite first penetrated Earth's atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, according to NASA and the US Air Force's Joint Space Operations Center. But that doesn't necessarily mean it all fell into the sea.
NASA's earlier calculations had predicted that the 20-year-old former climate research satellite would fall over a 500-mile (800-kilometer) swath and could hit land.
MORE: http://www.siasat.com/english/news/nasa-satellite-crashes-earth
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