Germany Satellite Will Fall Into Earth

The satellite will fall it is RontgenSatellite (ROSAT), the satelliteweighs 2.4 tons property diorbitkan German Aerospace Center on June 1, 1990. It orbits at an altitude angle 53 degrees north and south. That is, if you managed to arrive on Earth, the fragments will be scattered in the vast region.

"It is impossible to accurately predict when ROSAT will fall toEarth," said Heiner Klinkrad, Head of the Space Debris Office, the European Space Agency, as quoted by UPI, 29 September 2011."This uncertainty will decrease the closer the satellite entered theatmosphere," he said. According to a spokesman from theGerman Aerospace Center, an X-ray observation station spacethat is not working is expected to enter Earth's atmosphere at about the beginning of November. However, the precise moment ofthe satellite fragments arrive at the surface, it can not die nowdiketahui.Satelit monitored, but when the certainty he will fall to the Earth can not be determined until at least 2 hours before he arrivedon the ground.

However, Klinkrad mention, that still might be done is to cross out a number of specific geographical regions on Earth from the list ofareas that could potentially be affected by the satellite fractions. At least one day before the fall hit the satellite itself.