Fire Ball in the sky: Chinese satellite and space rocket were burned over America (video)

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! The Chinese Superview Satellite 1-02 burned in the atmosphere over the United States late in the evening of December 21, and a fire ball, which was transformed by the apparatus during the entry into the atmosphere, was seen by residents of 12 states at once. The Superview Satellite 1-02, which was engaged in obtaining images of the Earth, flew at a speed of 27 400 km/h when it entered our Earth's atmosphere.

Jonathan Makdoll, Astrophysicist from Harvard-Smithson's Astrophysics Center, which is engaged in tracking launches and satellite falls, reported that SpaceView from Beijing was led by this satellite. According to Makdll, since January 2023, this satellite was space garbage, because he was in a non -working state and there was only a matter of time when he fell to the ground. The fall of the satellite and its destruction in the atmosphere were observed by many residents of the United States.

Social networks have filled the photos and videos of the fire ball in the sky, to which the dead satellite turned. Some observers accepted this fiery ball for the fall of the meteor. According to McDall, this satellite was quite small, and therefore had to completely burn in the atmosphere, although it is likely that some small debris could fall to the ground. The Superview Satellite 1-02 was one of the two Superview 1 satellites, which were launched in orbit in December 2016.

The second satellite was called Superview 1-01. Instead of placing satellites in a circular orbit at an altitude of about 530 km above the Earth's surface, they were placed in an elliptical orbit with a height of 214 to 524 km above our planet. Subsequently, two satellites gradually rose even higher and began the mission. SuperView 1 series satellites were the first in China's history commercial satellites designed to monitor the Earth with high resolution chambers.

Each satellite weighed approximately 560 kg. In the following years, SpaceView launched a series of additional satellites to create a group of spacecraft to shoot land. The Superview Satellite 1-02 has become the second Chinese space object that burned in the sky over North America in recent days. On December 20, the Chinese space rocket broke up into parts in the atmosphere above Puerto Rico. The 44 meter-length rocket was launched on August 16 this year.

She brought in space classified satellites Yaogan-43. The first stage of the rocket remained in orbit, but then began to lose height and eventually entered the atmosphere, broke up into pieces and burned at about 113 km. As focus has already wrote, astronomers have found a new type of space explosions. A new type of space explosions occurs on the so -called dead stars and is called Millin.