|   Big satellite to drop from space soon | Jammer
Jan 30, 2002 9:30 AM | | Keep an eye to the sky everybody!!!
(CNN) -- A defunct 3.5-ton satellite could tumble from the sky in an uncontrolled descent and scatter debris over a swath of the planet within hours, NASA warned.
The aging spacecraft could re-enter the atmosphere as early as 10 p.m. EST Wednesday or as late as 7 a.m. EST Thursday, engineers with the space agency predicted.
Fragments from the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer could scatter along a trail extending up to 625 miles (1,000 km), NASA said, but no one yet knows where.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/01/29/satellite.fall/index.html |
| wil Bender be on it? [nm] | narlus
Jan 30, 2002 10:12 AM | | |
| LOL - good one (nm) | mtnpat
Jan 30, 2002 10:23 AM | | . |
| BUDDUM BUMM! (nm) | BostonBullit
Jan 30, 2002 12:58 PM | | . |
| NASA engineer C.N. Little could not be reached for comment... | DeRanger
Jan 30, 2002 1:37 PM | | nm |
| re: Big satellite to drop from space soon | Rode Warrior
Jan 31, 2002 8:50 AM | | Here's a great quote from the site
"Unlike the retired Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, which NASA safely guided from the sky into the ocean in 2000..."
I wonder if the fish know it was "safely guided into the ocean" and not dropped unceremoniously on their heads. |
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