Vintage NASA satellite falls to Earth, meets fiery doom after 56 years in space – Live Science

A long-retired NASA satellite burned up in Earth’s atmosphere
over the weekend, the agency has confirmed.
NASA launched the satellite, called Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1
, or OGO-1, in September 1964, the first in a series of five missions to help scientists understand the magnetic environment around Earth. OGO-1 was the first to launch but the last to fall out of orbit; the satellite had circled Earth aimlessly since its retirement in 1971.
But orbiting Earth is a tricky thing to do,…

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