NASA Satellite Falling Down to Earth

NASA Satellite Falling Down to Earth

• A NASA science satellite weighing six tonnes fell back to Earth.
• The NASA, U.S. space agency said that it was not yet known where the remains landed.
• The satellite is about 20-year-old.

Russia's last space station, the 135-tonnes Mir, crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2001.

NASA now plans for the controlled re-entry of large spacecraft, but it did not when UARS was designed.