A spy satellite will crash to Earth between February and March
An American spy satellite stopped to work and now it has lost propulsion. For this reason, it will crash to Earth in late February or early March, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Monday.
“We are monitoring it … we take our obligations seriously with respect to the use of space”, Whitman said, but he didn’t want to give details about the characteristics of the satellite or where they think it will impact.
According to The New York Times, some experts said Monday it could be an experimental imagery satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in December 2006.
The spy satellites are maneuvered in space in low orbit to meet military surveillance needs, and they require a highly toxic fuel, like the hydrazine, the specialists said.
* The following video shows a Russian rocket falling back to Earth over the Denver (USA) area last year. You can see how a solid cylinder becomes a mass of tiny pieces. The same should happen when spy satellite falls.
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