NASA satellite set to crash back to Earth
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There is a NASA satellite up there the size of a bus that will hit us somewhere between Canada and South America! No time forecast but don't worry as we will get 2 hours notice! I'd suggest wearing helmets on a permanent basis until the exact time is announced!
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As it's the size of a Bus it won't arrive on time and when it does there will be two more behind it.
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Yep! Hope not though. I must keep informed on this on though. I think there could be a scramble for souvenirs if they gave to 'landing' location.If anyone has further info, I'd be interested to hear it.
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Mike,
I know it well as I worked on the calibration facility for one of the instruments (ISAMS)
From a paper published in 1990
"The primary goal of NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), planned to be launched in 1991, is to compile data about the structure and behavior of the stratospheric ozone layer, and especially about the threat of the chlorine-based pollutants to its stablility. Two of the payload instruments, manufactured in the UK, are described: the Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS), a radiometer designed to measure thermal emission from selected atmospheric constituents at the earth's limb, then making it possible to obtain nearly global coverage of the vertical distribution of temperature and composition from 80 deg S to 80 deg N latitude; and the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS), a limb sounding radiometer, measuring atmospheric thermal emission from selected molecular spectral lines at mm wavelength, in the frequency regions of 63, 183, and 205 GHz."
It will be good to have the old dear back again, albeit vapourised or in bits.
Space junk is now a huge problem, particularly after the Chinese went and did a very stupid thing (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14763668)
Regards,
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Thanks Bob. Not alone is it getting crowded down here its nearly as bad up there ..... somethings gotta give sooner or later!
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