With a massive dead NASA satellite due to plunge back to Earth this week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is laying the groundwork for a fast response in case the 6 1/2-ton spacecraft falls over American soil.Full story
A dead climate satellite that has been circling Earth for 20 years will make a fiery death plunge this week, with some pieces of the six-ton spacecraft expected to reach the surface of the planet, NASA officials say. Full story
This story was updated at 3:30 p.m. ET. NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite, with the U.S. space agency now predicting the 6 1/2-ton climate probe will plummet to Earth around Sept. 23, a day earlier than previously reported. Full story
An artist's conception shows NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite breaking up and burning up during atmospheric re-entry.
A map from Analytical Graphics Inc. shows the ground track for NASA's UARS satellite for the 28 hours from 2 a.m. ET Friday to 6 a.m. ET Saturday — which reflects The Aerospace Corp.'s estimate for the time of re-entry. During that time frame, the satellite will follow the narrow blue tracks shown o
The bus-sized UARS satellite sails over Earth at the end of the shuttle Discovery's robotic arm during its deployment in 1991.
