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Rest In Peace Uars
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post Dec 14 2005, 11:51 PM
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The Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite, deployed Sept. 12 1991 from the Space Shuttle Discovery, was decomissioned today. It's last good battery shorted out in August and planning to end the mission went as planned and concluded today with the shutting down of the satellite. Last week, a several-minute burn lowered the orbit of the satellite.

It is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in 2008 or 2009. UARS opened a wealth of understanding on the upper and lower atmospheric layers including monitoring the ozone layer.


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- BPCooper   Rest In Peace Uars   Dec 14 2005, 11:51 PM
- - djellison   Always sad to see a great spacecraft come to the e...   Dec 14 2005, 11:58 PM
|- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 14 2005, 06:58 PM)Alwa...   Dec 15 2005, 02:00 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite -- launched b...   Dec 15 2005, 03:17 AM
- - djellison   At least the GERB instrument on the first MSG ( ma...   Dec 15 2005, 08:44 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   I believe so (although I'd have to review my d...   Dec 15 2005, 11:13 AM
- - happypete   QUOTE (BPCooper @ Dec 14 2005, 07:51 PM)It...   Jan 27 2006, 09:10 PM
- - Spin0   UARS re-entry is expected during the last week of ...   Sep 12 2011, 06:43 PM
|- - happypete   QUOTE (Spin0 @ Sep 12 2011, 01:43 PM) UAR...   Sep 14 2011, 01:41 PM
- - SolarSystemRubble   Prepare for UFO and fireball reports! This wi...   Sep 19 2011, 11:25 AM
- - Spin0   Thierry Legault shot a video of the tumbling UARS:...   Sep 20 2011, 09:47 PM
- - SolarSystemRubble   As of 1000 UTC today, the orbit is down to 195 x 2...   Sep 21 2011, 02:10 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   North America has just been ruled out of the strik...   Sep 22 2011, 06:19 PM
|- - SolarSystemRubble   By who? The latest map has a stripe across north a...   Sep 22 2011, 06:44 PM
- - PDP8E   ...from the site cited in the last post: Reentry ...   Sep 22 2011, 08:18 PM
|- - SolarSystemRubble   QUOTE (PDP8E @ Sep 22 2011, 03:18 PM) ......   Sep 22 2011, 08:45 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Here is one source ... Space.com Best to only re...   Sep 22 2011, 09:25 PM
|- - SolarSystemRubble   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Sep 22 201...   Sep 22 2011, 09:56 PM
- - SolarSystemRubble   BTW, the map has been updated with the latest orbi...   Sep 22 2011, 10:00 PM
- - Floyd   That is 9pm EDT on the 23rd (in US and Pacific tar...   Sep 22 2011, 10:47 PM
|- - SolarSystemRubble   QUOTE (Floyd @ Sep 22 2011, 05:47 PM) Tha...   Sep 22 2011, 11:42 PM
|- - MahFL   Last info I read said it would NOT be over the USA...   Sep 23 2011, 03:38 AM
- - Explorer1   South Pacific now: http://reentrynews.aero.org/199...   Sep 23 2011, 04:11 AM
|- - SolarSystemRubble   That's the same map I posted 6 hours earlier, ...   Sep 23 2011, 07:22 AM
- - Explorer1   Over the Sahara now. Still mostly empty areas.   Sep 23 2011, 04:54 PM
- - PDP8E   http://reentrynews.aero.org/1991063b.html the ree...   Sep 23 2011, 08:45 PM
- - Floyd   I don't know if aero.org does any independent ...   Sep 23 2011, 08:53 PM
|- - Silmfeanor   First post ! The latest info - 145 x 150 k...   Sep 24 2011, 01:10 AM
|- - SolarSystemRubble   Just some more details... Latest update as of 221...   Sep 24 2011, 02:43 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   It should be down by now, or very soon. QUOTE UAR...   Sep 24 2011, 04:45 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   UNCONFIRMED reports (from twitter) that it may hav...   Sep 24 2011, 04:59 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   Also, earlier lights reported over Edmonton would ...   Sep 24 2011, 05:10 AM
- - Explorer1   Northern Quebec's pretty empty (but not so emp...   Sep 24 2011, 05:23 AM
- - brellis   Hope no one wakes up with a headache or a new skyl...   Sep 24 2011, 05:41 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Several independent reports coming in from souther...   Sep 24 2011, 06:29 AM
- - Sunspot   now saying the pacific   Sep 24 2011, 08:37 AM
- - SolarSystemRubble   NASA Statement: Update #15 ‎Today, ‎S...   Sep 24 2011, 10:25 AM
- - Floyd   That is a rather long window for splashing in the ...   Sep 24 2011, 11:45 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (Floyd @ Sep 24 2011, 03:45 AM) Rea...   Sep 24 2011, 01:33 PM
- - SolarSystemRubble   If it did indeed come down over the Pacific, there...   Sep 24 2011, 12:10 PM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (SolarSystemRubble @ Sep 24 2011, 02...   Sep 24 2011, 02:01 PM
|- - SolarSystemRubble   QUOTE (Paolo @ Sep 24 2011, 09:01 AM) mil...   Sep 24 2011, 02:26 PM
- - Floyd   QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 24 2011, 09:33 AM)...   Sep 24 2011, 04:12 PM
- - SolarSystemRubble   Update #16 ‎Today, ‎September ‎2...   Sep 24 2011, 04:16 PM
- - SolarSystemRubble   Map of Final orbit with most likely point where ce...   Sep 24 2011, 06:36 PM
|- - MahFL   Also at the peak of the re-entry time, the trackin...   Sep 26 2011, 01:18 PM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (MahFL @ Sep 26 2011, 09:18 AM) Als...   Sep 26 2011, 08:17 PM
|- - gwiz   USSTRATCOM is now quoting decay time as 0400 GMT p...   Sep 27 2011, 10:57 AM
|- - SolarSystemRubble   QUOTE (gwiz @ Sep 27 2011, 05:57 AM) USST...   Sep 27 2011, 07:21 PM
- - nprev   Apparently a very good outcome: remote area of S. ...   Sep 29 2011, 04:33 AM

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