Projected UARS Reentry Moves Up A Day
NASA has updated its projection of when the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) will reenter.
The UARS website reports that reentry is now expected on September 23 — this coming Friday — plus or minus a day. The previous projection was September 24.
It is still far too early to estimate where pieces of the satellite might land. The Earth is 70 percent covered with water, so there is a good chance the pieces will not hit land at all, but there is a possibility. NASA’s risk assessment concluded that there is a 1 in 3,200 chance of a human casualty.
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