Incoming! 1,300-pound NASA satellite will crash to Earth on March 10

by Tracheid

8 Comments

  1. Dimensional_Lumber on

    Your chances of getting Donnie Darko’d by a hunk of space trash are low… but never zero!

  2. -Nyarlabrotep- on

    Oh cool, I can just skim through the AI’s “key takeaways” at the top! Let’s see… “NASA’s Van Allen Probe A satellite, launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, is expected to crash back to Earth on **March 10, 2020.**”

    Neat. Thanks Yahoo AI.

  3. It has an inclination of just 9.5 degrees, it’ll come down somewhere between 10 degrees N and 10 degrees S (e.g. northern Venezuela to northern Bolivia in South America). Places a few degrees outside that window still have a chance to see the reentry, but all the US states and all of Europe are out. Northern Australia might have a chance to see it.