Out-of-fuel European satellite to come crashing down

October 19, 2013 01:36

A satellite monitoring Earth's gravity field since 2009 will run out of fuel "in the coming days" and eventually crash, with little risk to humans, the European Space Agency said today.

About 40 to 50 fragments with a combined mass of 250 kilogrammes are projected to hit our planet within weeks of the GOCE satellite running out of fuel, according to spacecraft operations manager Christoph Steiger.

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