World Briefing | SCIENCE: Satellite to Land, Somewhere

Friday, September 16, 2011 - 22:40 in Astronomy & Space

A defunct, six-ton NASA satellite will plummet out of orbit in about a week. The falling satellite, was launched in 1991 from the space shuttle Discovery to study the dynamics and chemistry of the upper atmosphere.

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