As we reported on Index, the German Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection predicted that a 2.6-ton platform, which separated from the International Space Station (ISS) three years ago, will collide with Germany on Friday (March 8). Now Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Platt of the Space Research Center in Uedem A Bild He said: The air is clean, but space junk does not fall on them.
There is a very high probability that the debris will reach the sea at 20:17
The presenter said.
The German Space Research Center in Odem, Lower Saxony, said that the platform flew over central Germany from the west at an altitude of 139 kilometers at 7:21 p.m. According to further information released by the Center for Space Awareness, there will be no more flybys over Germany.
“We received an update to the orbit data and measured where the object was and at what altitude. Based on the location, the flyby now taking place over Germany would be at an altitude that would not be able to reenter the Earth's atmosphere.”
Blatty was relieved: “What a relief, it was a special situation with a real possibility of danger. It's good that everything went well.”
