NASA satellite due to burn up some time in the next few days

By now you’ve probably heard that NASA’s Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS, pronounced YOO-arz, though in my head it’s always “You arse!”) will burn up in our atmosphere some time between Thursday and Saturday. The satellite was decommissioned in 2005 and they used the remaining fuel to lower the orbit. It’s been slowly getting lower Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 21/09/2011 01:13 Number of articles : 4

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NASA satellite due to burn up some time in the next few days

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