The 38-year-old Earth Radiation Budget Satellite weighed 5,400 pounds and fell over the Bering Sea.
NASA's Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, seen here in an artist's view and on the end of the space shuttle Challenger's robotic arm in 1984, burned up in Earth's atmosphere on Jan. 8, 2022.
A vintage NASA satellite launched in the 1980s and long-since turned to space junk met a fiery fate late Sunday as it fell back to Earth, NASA said today. observation satellite, called the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite , plunged back to Earth Sunday night at 11:04 p.m. EST . The 5,400-pound satellite reentered over the Bering Sea, with some components potentially surviving the super-hot temperatures of reentry.
"The Department of Defense confirmed that the 5,400-pound satellite reentered the atmosphere over the Bering Sea," NASA wrote in an."NASA expected most of the satellite to burn up as it traveled through the atmosphere, but for some components to survive the reentry."
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