Heads Up Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite Set To Re Enter Earth Atmpshere

NASA's UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITE, or UARS, will have an "uncontrolled reentry" into the Earth's atmosphere in late September or early October 2011, almost six years after the end of a productive scientific life. Although the 6.5 ton spacecraft (as big as a school bus) will BREAK INTO PIECES during re-entry, not all of it will burn up in the atmosphere, some pieces are expected to make it intact to the ground. More from NASA.

The now known land zone swath that covers most of the inhabited areas of the planet,from roughly Alaska and Denmark in the north to the tip of South America in the south. Readers who wish to track the UARS sateliite in its final days of orbit for observation or re-entry are encouraged to utilize REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING. NASA will be providing debris zone updates in the final hours prior to the UARS entry into the atmosphere for possibe re-entry sightings.

The 750-million satellite orbits the Earth every 96-minutes. It was launched in 1991 aboard SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY (STS-48).

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