If A Satellite falls from space will it burn before it hits earth?

Question

Does anyone recall or heard of a statellite falling from space and hitting Canada?

Answer 1

Skylab fell and hit parts of Canada, it was too big to completely burn up in the atmosphere.

Answer 2

I don't recall an incident where a satellite fell to Earth in Canada specifically, but satellites can and have fallen to Earth, at least pieces of some have. One example is the space shuttle disaster some years ago. Many relatively large parts of the shuttle fell to Earth.

It really depends on how large the satellite that falls is as to whether any of it reaches Earth.

Answer 3

at the start, meteors and comets are completely diverse forms of gadgets. Meteors are tiny fragments of area dirt which the Earth sweeps up jointly as orbiting the solar. those are heated to incandescence by utilising the Earth's ecosystem and look as a staggering streak of sunshine which lasts below a 2nd, nonetheless in some circumstances a extensive one will pass away a path which persists for a couple of minutes. yet in reality those are tiny temporary gadgets. Comets are lots larger image voltaic equipment bodies in sturdy orbits around the solar, and commonly come nowhere close to the Earth or different planets. They crawl and have lifetimes measured in thousands and thousands of years (or extra). they're reported for weeks or months at a time. the only ingredient they have in person-friendly with meteors is that some comets, after many journeys around the solar, smash up into smaller debris which reason meteor showers, however the meteors in those showers, like all meteors, are gadgets which flare up for a 2nd or much less, and are not from now on area of something which resembles a comet. there is not any way you are able to mistake a meteor for a comet, or vice versa. Comets very almost by no skill hit planets -- the only widespread occasion became Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which hit Jupiter in 1994. There are, of direction, many photographs of this journey. If a comet have been to hit Earth, the effects could be catastrophic. Meteors, on the different hand, hit the Earth (or fairly the Earth's ecosystem) by utilising the loads on a daily basis, yet somewhat few of those stay to tell the tale to prevail in the exterior of the Earth. there are numerous imagery of meteors interior the Earth's ecosystem, yet none, so some distance as i comprehend, of a meteor relatively hitting the Earth. regularly meteors are tracked by utilising distinctive cameras, a flight direction widespread, and then searchers on the floor %. up the products some days later, this is precisely what has befell with the present meteor fall in western Canada.

Answer 4

Define "falling". Most satellites that fall back to Earth do so at low orbital speed (7.9 km/s). It is because their orbit decays that they no longer stay in orbit. Hitting the denser regions of the upper atmosphere at that speed generates a lot of heat.

However, imagine that the shuttle, barely above the atmosphere, launches a satellite and gives it a backwards push at exactly 7.9 km/s, then this new "satellite" would find itself completely immobile. It would, of course, start to fall downwards.

If the satellite is large and light (for example, a hollow ball of metal), air friction might prevent it from attaining very high speed. It would simply fall at some terminal velocity without burning up.

Answer 5

Skylab hit Australia, not Canada. A Russian spy satellite hit Canada once, though, and leaked radiation from its reactor.

It depends on how big the satellite is, and what it is made of.

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When Cosmos 954, a crippled Soviet spy satellite carrying a nuclear reactor, re-entered the earth's atmosphere and disintegrated over northern Canada in January 1978, it set off a frantic search for its fragments. The reactor, which had provided electrial power for the satellite, contained 100 pounds of uranium 235, which can give off deadly radioactivity for hundreds of centuries.

Answer 6

If it's large (like Skylab, bits of which landed in Australia, or Mir, which I think ended up in the ocean) some of it can get through. A spy satellite with a small nuclear reactor on board did land in northern Canada and caused some problems, fortunately it was in a remote area.
Generally, they have a pretty good idea of where and when satellites are going to come down, and how much of them might be left after they get torched going through the atmosphere.

Answer 7

Skylab didn't hit Canada, it hit Australia. Yes, there've been plenty of satellites that have fallen & hit the Earth; probably the one in Canada that's most famous was the Russian Spy sat that never achieved proper orbit. IIRC, it was aloft for about 4 days, and landed in the Canadian wilderness - spilling it's radioactive power source (either plutonium or uranium) back in the... 70's...?

Answer 8

The 'Mir space station' went offline and re-entered the earth a while back. It was too late to save it and the technology was not in place to reverse the occurance..or pushing it further out into space. The clutter came down and some dropped in the ocean yet some peices were on land.

Answer 9

Sometimes, but not always. Yes, there was part of a satellite that landed in Canada. And another landed in Australia. Parts of the shuttle Columbia landed in Texas. I also heard of a meteorite that someone had which was later analyzed and shown to be artificial, containing metal alloys that we use in satellites but which do not occur naturally in meteorites.

Answer 10

it depends on how big the satellite is - what its orbit was and what it's made of - if a big satellite in a low orbit de-orbits it can make it to the ground without completely burning up

Answer 11

it depends, but most likely yes it will burn up in our atmosphere due to the friction. it can also break apart and remnants can be spread over a large area