US EditionReentry of NASA satellite will exceed the agency's own risk guidelines
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Tonight, a NASA satellite is going to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. It is not an unusual event, as several uncontrolled re-entrys of satellites or exhausted stages of rockets occur each month, but the case of the Van Allen Probe A probe is different since it will not occur according to NASA’s usual safety guidelines. Van Allen Probe A, who has spent more than a decade crossing the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding the Earth, will burn dur…
Reentry of NASA satellite will exceed the agency's own risk guidelines
No one on the ground has ever been injured by falling space junk, but there are examples of space debris causing property damage. NASA’s two Van Allen Probes launched into elliptical orbits ranging from a few hundred miles above Earth up to an apogee, or high point, of nearly 20,000 miles. The orbits are inclined 10 degrees to the equator, limiting the risk of injury or damage to a swath of the tropics. NASA ended the mission in 2019 when the sa…
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