{"id":516012,"date":"2026-03-11T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/516012\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:32:08","slug":"nasa-says-a-1300-pound-satellite-will-crash-into-earth-tuesday-or-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/516012\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA says a 1,300-pound satellite will crash into Earth Tuesday or Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) \u2014 NASA says it\u2019s highly unlikely anyone will get hurt when a 1,300-pound spacecraft crashes into Earth soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/van-allen-probes\/nasa-van-allen-probe-a-to-re-enter-atmosphere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/van-allen-probes\/nasa-van-allen-probe-a-to-re-enter-atmosphere\/\">NASA predicts<\/a> the Van Allen Probe A will re-enter Earth\u2019s atmosphere Tuesday night at about 7:45 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The agency says the re-entry time could vary by 24 hours, and it\u2019s not sure where debris will fall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"NASA predicts the Van Allen Probe A will re-enter Earth's atmosphere Tuesday night.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HVJTDWUXS5F7POZN6OZLGMNEFM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"543\" \/>NASA predicts the Van Allen Probe A will re-enter Earth&#8217;s atmosphere Tuesday night.(JHU\/APL, NASA via CNN Newsource)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NASA says most of the satellite should burn up in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But the pieces that survive have about a 1-in-4,200 chance of harming someone \u2014 about a 0.02% chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The satellite has spent almost 14 years in space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) \u2014 NASA says it\u2019s highly unlikely anyone will get hurt when a 1,300-pound spacecraft crashes into Earth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[29407,233426,58660,2300,718,6583,79,193,233425],"class_list":["post-516012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-atmosphere","tag-crash-into-earth","tag-debris","tag-earth","tag-nasa","tag-satellite","tag-science","tag-space","tag-van-allen-probe-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}