NASA's RHESSI satellite deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere - the debris did not reach the surface

On April 19 at 22:00 (EET), residents of the capital of Ukraine could observe a bright blue flash.Some officials

It was a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellite that entered the Earth's atmosphere on April 19.

What is known

The Air Force of Ukraine denied the information aboutthe fall of the satellite. Later, NASA representatives did the same. But the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) satellite, which studied solar flares from 2002 to 2018, successfully deorbited over Africa.

The US Department of Defense has confirmed that the satelliteweighing 270 kg entered the atmosphere over the Sahara Desert. According to the US Space Command, the device with the number 27370 burned up in the Earth's atmosphere. Debris did not reach the surface of our planet.

As for the bright flash in the sky over the Kyiv region, it was the meteor of the Lyrid shower. It is possible that in the coming days, Ukrainians will see similar outbreaks several more times.