The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), an observatory for studying solar flares, will fall on
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National Aeronautics Administration andNASA sent RHESSI in 2002 to explore the Sun. The satellite performed its tasks until 2018, after which the space agency decommissioned it.
It is expected that April 19 at 04:30 (EET) RHESSI will enter Earth's atmosphere. Scientists from NASA believe that most of the spacecraft will not survive the return to our planet and will burn up in the atmosphere. The risk of damage is 1 in 2467.
270 kg only at first glance seems bigthe weight of the apparatus returning to Earth. For example, in the late autumn of last year, a stage of a Chinese rocket fell, which sent the final module for the Chinese space station into space. Its weight was 21 tons.