Washington, April 21 (BNA): The US Space Agency reported today, Thursday, that an old satellite belonging to the US Space Agency (NASA), which has studied the sun for more than a decade, fell to Earth over the Sahara Desert.
NASA officials said they have not received any reports of damage or injuries so far from the re-entry, which occurred in the early hours of this morning in Sudan.
Most of the 660-pound (300-kilogram) satellite, named Rhessi, was expected to burn up during its descent into the atmosphere. But experts predicted that some of the pieces would survive and hit the ground.
Launched in 2002, Rhessi was shut down in 2018 after a connection issue. Before Silence, it studied solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun, the AP reports.
Resi is the solar spectrophotograph for Reuven Ramati.
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