Satellites that fall from the sky, where it Goes??

           Where do dead satellites go? Some of them drift away in space but most fall down to earth. In the next few days, a schoolbus-sized satellite will fall back to earth. NASA officials don’t know exactly where it will fall until about two hours before it enters the Earth’s atmosphere. Usually, satellites and payload modules disintegrate into smaller pieces as they enter the atmosphere, and the danger to people is not as high as one might imagine. NASA spokespersons added that there is a 1-in-3,200 chance that a person somewhere on Earth could be hit by falling satellite debris. Here’s a look at space debris found on earth.

 

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, shown in this conceptual image, was launched in 1991 by space shuttle Discovery. The 35-foot-long, 15-foot-diameter UARS was decommissioned on December 14, 2005. The nearly 12,500-pound (5,668-kilogram) satellite will fall over a stretch of land more than 500 miles (804 kilometers) long somewhere between northern Canada and southern South America, said NASA officials.
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Launched in 1973, Skylab was the world’s first successful space station. The cylinder-shaped station was 118 feet tall, weighed 77 tons, and carried an assortment of scientific equipment. In 1979, after breaking up in the atmosphere, Skylab crashed down in Australia and into the Indian Ocean.

A US Customs official inspects the largest piece of the downed Skylab at the San Francisco International Airport in 1979. The one-ton piece wreckage was found in Australia.

One of space shuttle Challenger's elevons is moved by tractor after being found washed ashore on Cocoa Beach, Florida December 17. Challenger exploded shortly after launch January 28, 1986. All seven crew members lost their lives.

In this video-grab image, an object is seen falling from Space Shuttle Columbia during liftoff on January 16, 2003. The area from which the object fell is highlighted in the red circle near the shuttle's main engines.
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Debris from the space shuttle Columbia is placed on a grid at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Columbia disintegrated on re-entry February 1, 2003.
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A picture showing the actual disintegration of space shuttle Columbia upon reentry into the atmosphere

The main propellant tank of the second stage of a Delta 2 launch vehicle, which landed near Georgetown, Texas in 1997, weighs 250 kg tank is primarily a stainless steel structure and survived reentry relatively intact.
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This 4-feet inch diameter sphere found in Lake Nacogdoches, Texas belonged to space shuttle Columbia. Low water levels at the lake during the drought have led to recovery of a container-like object presumably from the ill-fated space shuttle, which broke apart and burned in February 2003, scattering remnants over East Texas.
(AP Photo/Nacogdoches Police Department)

See this One...  About this satellite NASA expects the UARS to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in late September or early October but does not have a clear idea of where the satellite will fall until two hours before it enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
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