Dead NASA satellite will crash to Earth this week

A dead NASA spacecraft will come crashing back to Earth in the next few days, experts say. NASA's RHESSI satellite, which studied the sun from 2002 until its decommissioning in 2018, is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere around 9:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday (April 19; 0130 GMT on April 20), plus or minus 16 hours, according to the latest estimates by the U.S. military. RHESSI (short for "Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager") isn't a huge satellite. It weighs just 600 pounds (270 kilograms), and the majority of that mass will be converted to ash and vapor during RHESSI's death dive, NASA officials said. More

(Source: Space.com - Apr 18)