What is the current plan for the Compton Observatory?
During a press conference on March 24th, the NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science, Dr. Edward Weiler, announced that public safety required NASA to cause CGRO to reentry the Earth’s atmosphere. This process would begin on May 29th, with reentry occurring on June 3rd. Some parts of the spacecraft will fall into uninhabited regions of the Pacific. While debris would be scattered over a region of 16 by 962 miles, debris are expected to impact only 62 square yards (52 square meters).
