Satellite watchers

The American army is working out emergency plans for a large spy satellite which could strike North America when it falls to ground at the end of February or at the beginning of March. General Air Force Gene Renuart, with the head of US Northern Command, declared the size of the satellites suggested certain parts would not have to incinerate because it penetrated in the atmosphere, and which it ran up against the ground. "... We know that there is at least a certain percentage (satellite) who could be posed on the ground rather than in water ", declared Renuart. The satellite spy was launched in December 2006 but lost power almost at once and cannot be controlled. It is carrying a secrecy and imagery sophisticated of sensors, but the central satellite of the computer failed little after launching, an American person in charge declared. Renuart says that the satellite could enter "the North-American zone again". It declared that the military agencies made an analysis in order to determine which parts are most likely to survive the re-entry. But it admitted civils servant would not have many details on where and when it broke down until it started to circulate through the atmosphere and to split up. The satellite includes/understands some small engines which contain a toxic chemical called hydrazine or of fuel for rockets. But Renuart says that they are not large auxiliary engines with considerable quantities of fuel. The video images of the satellite captured by John Locker, a service of amateur per British satellite watcher, show it to approximately four to five meters in diameter. It believes that it weighs of a maximum of 4.500 kg. Locker its size calculated with the data on altitude and the localization provided by other observers of amateur per satellite, by using the international space station like a standard. Satellite watchers - a world network of satellites amateurs which follow for the pleasure - to be raised of the degradation of the satellite during one year. They estimate that it is from now on at an altitude of approximately 278 kilometers, and racks estimates that it is in fall of approximately 500 meters per day.