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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Abigail O'Leary & Fiona Leishman

Decades-old NASA satellite CRASHES down to Earth and lands in Sahara Desert

A NASA satellite which crashed to Earth in the early hours of Thursday morning, April 20, has been located.

The decades old satellite had a one in 2,500 chance of killing someone - however, it has reportedly landed in the Sahara Desert with no reports of damage or injury so far.

Most of the 300kg (660lb) satellite, called Rhessi, was expected to burn up as it plummeted through the atmosphere on its re-entry to EArth.

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