Us Safe, But Where Satellite Will Fall Unknown

Friday appears to be re-entry day for NASA’s  falling UARS satellite — a school-bus size spacecraft that will shoot its way into Earth’s atmosphere. NASA, the U.S. military and amateur astronomers are now able to say it won't come down over North America.

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