The decommissioned satellite that reentered the atmosphere and fell to Earth last week dropped into the South Pacific, dpa quoted the US space agency NASA as saying Wednesday. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, one of NASA's own spacecraft, came down around 0400 GMT Saturday over "a broad, remote ocean area in the Southern Hemisphere, far from any major land mass. NASA was unable to steer the craft and did not immediately know where it had struck. Since then, the Joint Space Operations Centre at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has determined that the stricken weather research satellite reentered the atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean, NASA said. NASA said it was "not aware of any possible debris sightings from this geographic area."
