German Satellite to Re-Enter This Weekend


Message posted by Gregos on October 22, 2011 at 20:20:06 PST:

ROSAT weighs about 5,348 pounds (2,426 kilograms) and launched into orbit in June 1990 as part of a joint mission by Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. In 1998, the satellite's star tracker failed, which caused its X-ray sensors to point directly at the sun. This permanently damaged the spacecraft, and ROSAT was officially decommissioned in February 1999.

Sorry Joerg! ;-)

Attached link: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/22/doomed-german-satellite-to-fall-to-earth-this-weekend/

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