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ROSAT crashes over Bay of Bengal

Science - Space

Officials with the German Aerospace Center stated that its ROSAT satellite crashed into the Bay of Bengal on Saturday, October 22, 2011.

 


Earlier reports were unable to pinpoint where ROSAT deorbited and impacted Earth.

See the October 24, 2011 iTWire article"Where oh where did the satellite crash?".

ROSAT deorbited out of its orbit about Earth and began to re-enter Earth's atmosphere at about 9:50 p.m Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), Saturday, October 22, 2011, (time on the eastern coast of the United States).

That relates to 3:50 CEST (Central European Summer Time) on October 23, 2011, or 0150 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

ROSAT is short for Röntgensatellit because in the German language x-rays are called röntgenstrahlen.

At its approximate point of deorbiting, the satellite was above Asia's Bay of Bengal, somewhere between India and Myanmar (formerly Burma).

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