{"id":28833,"date":"2023-01-09T23:51:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T23:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/satellite-that-found-ozone-hole-in-the-80s-falls-to-earth-the-register\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T23:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T23:51:39","slug":"satellite-that-found-ozone-hole-in-the-80s-falls-to-earth-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/satellite-that-found-ozone-hole-in-the-80s-falls-to-earth-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite that found Ozone hole in the 80s falls to Earth \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A defunct weather-monitoring satellite came crashing back to Earth over the weekend, and reentered the atmosphere over the Bering Sea, the US Department of Defense confirmed<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

Launched in 1984, the spacecraft was part of NASA’s Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) mission, and studied how the Sun impacts Earth’s climate. The 5,400-pound device (2,449 kg) was designed to operate for two years, but continued to record data until it was finally retired after a series of hardware failures in 2005.<\/p>\n

After spending nearly four decades in space, the dead satellite plummeted back to Earth on 8 January at 1104 EST (1604 UTC). Most of the components were destroyed by the heat and friction of reentry, but South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT nonetheless warned residents to watch for falling chunks of satellite.<\/p>\n

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