A decommissioned satellite will enter the atmosphere to crash into Earth on Wednesday night, but the odds of its debris harming anyone are “low,” according to NASA.
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the Ramati High Energy Spectrophotometer RHESSI was used privately to monitor solar flares between 2002 and 2018 before it was decommissioned due to communication issues with the spacecraft.
NASA said in a statement that the 300-kilogram satellite is expected to descend to Earth at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday “with an uncertainty of more or less than 16 hours.”
She also adds that she believes the vast majority of the craft’s components will burn up in the atmosphere, but expects some parts to remain in this passage.
The space agency estimates that the chance of the wreck hitting a human is 1 in 2,467.
Over the years, RHESSI has improved the accuracy of calculations regarding the size of the Sun and helped discover that gamma rays emitted from Earth’s upper atmosphere are becoming more frequent than previously thought.
