Falling US Satellite Sparks Emergency Phone Alert In This Country - NDTV

South Koreans, utilized to getting mobile telephone alerts informing of earthquakes oregon Covid outbreaks, received a much antithetic notification Monday morning, cautioning of information from above.

The country's Ministry of Science and ICT sent a nationwide alert that "some debris from a falling US outer whitethorn clang adjacent the Korean peninsula" astatine astir lunchtime. "Please beryllium cautious erstwhile going retired during that time."

The ministry subsequently said successful a connection that the retired spacecraft - NASA's Earth Radiation Budget Satellite - was "believed to person passed implicit the Korean Peninsula, and nary peculiar harm has been reported truthful far."

The US abstraction bureau said past week that the 5,400-pound (2,450 kilo) outer would apt re-enter the earth's ambiance connected Sunday oregon Monday.

While astir of the astir 40-year-old spacecraft was expected to pain up upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere, immoderate components were expected to past and clang to Earth. NASA had said the hazard of harm coming to anyone connected the satellite was "very low."

South Korea, however, was taking nary chances and utilized its exigency broadcast strategy to nonstop a connection to the nation's mobile phones.

Most man-made abstraction debris which falls to Earth poses small menace to humans, though immoderate events, similar the uncontrolled re-entry past twelvemonth of rocket boosters utilized to motorboat a Chinese abstraction presumption module, person prompted concerns astir the imaginable for crushed strikes.

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