Official: NASA's UARS Re-Enters Earth's Atmosphere
Talk about a (non) media event... NASA's decommissioned Upper
Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) fell back to Earth between
11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. Sept. 24, 20 years
and nine days after its launch on a 14-year mission that produced
some of the first long-term records of chemicals in the
atmosphere. The precise re-entry time and location of debris
impacts have not been determined. During the re-entry period, the
satellite passed from the east coast of Africa over the Indian
Ocean, then the Pacific Ocean, then across northern Canada, then
across the northern Atlantic Ocean, to a point over West Africa.
The vast majority of the orbital transit was over water, with some
flight over northern Canada and