Achtung: German satellite to crash down tonight

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[h=4]Achtung: German satellite to crash down tonight, won't land in Germany[/h] By Tim Stevens posted Oct 22nd 2011 6:10PM

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As if it weren't hard enough keeping your house safe from debt collectors these days, now you have something else to worry about: a falling German satellite called ROSAT. The German Aerospace Center has estimated that the hunk of decommissioned, extra-orbital metal will enter the atmosphere sometime between 7:30pm ET tonight and 1:30am ET tomorrow. It's unknown whether any of the thing will survive re-entry, but the 1.7 ton telescope mirror onboard very well may, striking the surface at a hasty 17,398MPH. The agency doesn't know where it will fall, but did reassuringly say that it won't hit Europe -- German scientists basically telling the rest of the world to spend all night worrying while they doze away, peacefully. At least it won't be taking any of its orbital brethren with it...
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[OfftheRails]

Now what does that story remind me of.....?

 

[mumpel]

It is still on the way wiill take his way back on next worldwar and help use to win or not......^^

 

[OfftheRails]

next worldwar

Battlefield 4 anyone?

 

[otto13]

BF4 would be about that german sciencists trying to kill the rest of the world with satellites which are falling down.

 

[KillaSer]

What goes up MUST come down, fuckers will never learn...

 

[2Tartu]

What goes up MUST come down, fuckers will never learn...

They do learn, they are learning to get it higher, striving for infinity.

 

[cplmac]

Looks like it crashed somewhere inline from China, Myanmar and the Indian Ocean / Andaman Sea east of Sri Lanka.
Scientist: Falling German satellite must have crashed into Southeast Asia, no debris seen yet - The Washington Post
Apparently it entered the atmosphere at approximately 280 mph, but there have been no reports of an impact site so they are thinking it may have come down in the water.

 

[OfftheRails]

28,000mph?

 

[cplmac]

Nope, just 280 for some reason. I have to wonder if that's a typo, Columbia re-entered at 22,000mph