The head of the military administration of Kyiv, Serhiy Popko, said the air warning sounded in Kyiv tonight was due to the “crash of a NASA space satellite”. “Around 10 p.m., a bright glow from a flying object was observed in the sky over Kiev.
According to preliminary information, this phenomenon was the result of the crash of a NASA space satellite to Earth. To prevent the debris from falling to the ground, an air raid alert was called. Air defense was not operational,” Popko said in a telegram from the Kyiv military administration.
In the hours before the news about the fall of a satellite in Kiev, NASA had warned on the possibility that its defunct satellite Rhessi, which traveled in space for more than 20 years and recorded more than 100,000 solar events, crashed on earth on Wednesday night into Thursday, without being able to give a geographical location. The US space agency had stressed that most of the satellite would go up in smoke on its journey back into the atmosphere, but warned that “some components” could withstand the impact. “The risk of harming anyone on Earth is small,” NASA said with a one in 2,467 probability. According to forecasts, the satellite should reenter the Earth’s atmosphere around 3.30 a.m. Thursday morning in Italy with approximately “16 hours more or less” in an undefined location.
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