NASA on Wednesday night denied claims by Ukrainian officials that a powerful flash in Kyiv’s skies resulted from one of its satellites falling to Earth.
“NASA’s retired Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) spacecraft is predicted by the Department of Defense to reenter Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 8:50 pm EDT on Wednesday, April 19 with an uncertainty of +/- 1 hour,” the space agency said in a statement.
“No other NASA satellite reentered the atmosphere earlier today.”
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Following the reports that NASA's satellite fell in Ukraine, Rob Margetta, NASA's Public Affairs Officer told Sputnik that the agency's satellite called RHESSI remains in orbit, and no other objects reentered the atmosphere.
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Earlier on Wednesday, the head of the Kiev city military administration, Serhiy Popko, said that the flash in the sky over Kiev was the result of a NASA space satellite falling to Earth.