A 300kg NASA satellite is set to crash into Earth later today - and there is a chance it could land on someone's head. The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, known more commonly as RHESSI, has been in space for 21 years. It was launched in 2002 and deactivated in 2018, owing to communication issues.
It has simply been flying around ever since. But now, the Daily Star reports it is set to plummet back to the planet's surface, with the exact point of re-entry not yet made public.
The satellite weighs around 300kg, approximately 10 emus. And it should burn up as it enters the atmosphere, but there is a "low" chance it could land on a person's head.
