NASA harmful satellites, the US must compensate

Any country with satellite debris from the US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) fell and damaged this morning (24-9 hours Hanoi), which may be compensated by the US Government according to international law, according to French news agency AFP.

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According to calculations, NASA's Aerosol Research Aerosol (UARS) weighs 6.5 tons, including the same size as a tour bus, falling to Earth, stretching over a great area. The width is from 57 degrees north to 57 degrees south.

The territory of Vietnam is located in the area that may be dropped by about 26 large fragments of UARS satellites. The main components of these fragments are titanium, stainless steel and beryllium.

Simulation of falling paths of UARS (small images)
to Earth on Saturday morning. (Source: NASA)

Citing an American cosmological law professor, AFP said, the United States may have to compensate any country that crashed and harmed NASA satellite debris.

'Compensation may be unlimited', said Professor Frans von der Dunk of the Department of Law, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, citing the 1972 Legal Responsibility Convention that the US is one of 80 member states. This Convention, which Vietnam is also a member of, regulates legal responsibility for damage caused by artificial objects in the universe.

The losses are specified as damage to life, injury, or health damage, or damage to national assets as well as individuals and organizations.

However, NASA's largest satellite in 30 years (4.5m in diameter and over 10m long) falls to Earth, debating the group of countries that are not members of the 1972 Legal Liability Convention. whether or not to be compensated for damage.

'Surely this will be a thorny problem if that situation happens, especially when the number of countries at risk of being hit by the UARS satellite on the morning of September 24 is very much theoretically ', Professor Dunk noted.

Vietnam has no information

NASA acknowledged it was impossible to know exactly where the 26 large UARS debris would fall to Earth's location for up to two hours before they hit the ground. Since AURS ran out of fuel, NASA could no longer control it.

The time and place of their fall depends on many atmospheric factors that change the Earth's daily as well as storms from the sun. The fall time of AURS satellite occurred earlier due to NASA's expected several hours.

'To monitor this, NASA must have a dense observation radar network that few countries have , ' said Vu Trong Thu, a small satellite research team member at FPT. According to Mr. Thu, the only way to take precautions is to follow the latest announcement on NASA's homepage.

Mr. Tran Tien Binh, the State Calendar Department of Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, affirmed that Vietnam as well as many other countries in the region do not have any means or measuring devices to help monitor the trajectory of falling. UARS satellite debris.

If it falls at dawn, the sun has not yet risen, in Vietnam it can be observed with telescopes of falling debris because they are burned in the atmosphere, even, can be observed with the naked eye if they fall down. Vietnamese territory.