After 56 years in orbit, the OGO-1 satellite burned out in the atmosphere
Last week, the Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 (OGO-1) satellite of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), launched into orbit in the distant 1964, completed its existence.
It was built at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and was launched in the first of six missions that sent one such satellite into orbit every year from 1964 to 1969 to help scientists study our planet.
Launched first, OGO-1 was the last to go out of orbit, orbiting aimlessly around the Earth after the end of technical support in 1971. Prior to that, he had been supplying scientists with data on the magnetosphere of our planet for five years. In 1969, the satellite was put into a temporary shutdown mode, as scientists no longer received the required amount of data from it.
Last Saturday, August 29, the satellite (OGO-1) weighing 487 kg, as predicted by NASA, entered the dense layers of the atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean and burned up, spokesman for the US space agency Josh Handal told Space.com via email. Handal).
According to him, the spacecraft entered the atmosphere about 25 minutes earlier than NASA’s calculations, in connection with which the entry point was more east than the agency assumed. However, this did not pose any threat to people.
