Satellite to crash to earth

The UAR Sattellite is due to re-enter the earth atmosphere some time in the evening on Friday 23rd Sept GMT+1

The craft weighs in at 5.6 tonnes and has currently a large area it could re enter, anything from 57 degrees above and 57 degrees below the equator.

The satellite was put into a disposal orbit on 15th Dec 2005.

Up-to-date location and time of re-entry can be found here :-