2023-04-19 04:03:00
This crash marks the end of the RHESSI satellite mission, which began on February 5, 2002.
NASA satellite will soon crash into Earth. This Monday, April 17, 2023, the American space agency indicated on son site than its satellite RHESSI (Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) was going to throw itself once morest the atmosphere of our planet. The impact is predicted on the night of Wednesday 19 to Thursday 20 April.
This crash marks the end of the mission of RHESSIstarted on February 5, 2002. This satellite was intended for the observation of solar flares. In particular, it was able to study a complete solar cycle for 11 years and made it possible to record more than 100,000 X-ray events. Communication problems eventually pushed NASA to put it out of service.
“The risk of anyone on Earth being harmed is low”
According to calculations by the US space agency, the observatory of regarding 300 kilos should enter the atmosphere around 3 a.m. this Thursday, April 20with a margin of error of 16 hours.
There would be no need to worry regarding this crash, the satellite should almost be destroyed upon contact with the atmosphere, “but some components should survive the re-entry. The risk of anyone on Earth being harmed is low, regarding 1 in 2,467.”, says NASA.
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