ROSAT satellite-weighted 1.6 tons will Fall

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Space junk former satellite UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) was fall hit the earth on Saturday, September 19, 2011 last. But the threat of satellite carcasses that fall to Earth is still not over.

ABC News wrote news sites UARS did fall in the Pacific Ocean and do not endanger human lives. But October is again threatened by the falling earth satellite called ROSAT garbage.

Is a German satellite ROSAT X-ray observations of Germany. ROSAT mission began on June 1, 1990 to initiate a new era of X-ray technology in the disciplines of astronomy. The spacecraft is equipped with a giant X-ray telescope to capture images of objects in space.

This satellite was launched by the laboratory space Jerma, DLR in cooperation with the U.S. antarika agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and the board of science and engineering research UK (SERC).

Site DLR Newscientist write according to estimates there are 30 pieces of ROSAT with a total weight of 1.6 tonnes would fall hit the earth.

Head Office Space ruins, Heiner Klinkrad, the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany recognized that fractional ROSAT satellite will fall to touch the earth's surface. "This is because the ROSAT does have a glass structure that will be able to break through the current high temperatures fell crashing layer of Earth's atmosphere," said Heiner Klinkrad in Newscientis