A 270kg dead satellite is set to fall to Earth tonight after it was decommissioned from NASA.
The spacecraft, known as the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), will re-enter Earth's atmosphere at approximately 1.30am Irish time on Thursday morning.
The space agency has said the risk of it harming or killing anyone is one in 2,467.
The spacecraft was launched in 2002 and provided crucial information to scientists on solar flares, which are intense localised eruptions of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere, before being decommissioned in 2018.
More than 100,000 X-rays of solar flares were taken by the 270kg piece of equipment during its time in space.
The Daily Mail reported that predictions on where the spacecraft will hit on Earth remains unknown, with projections showing a half million mile radius.
NASA is set to update as it reenters the Earth's atmosphere, with most of it burning up in the process, however the agency has issued a caveat, saying that "some components may survive."
They have also warned that there is a 16-hour window of uncertainty as to when exactly it will strike the Earth.
NASA and the Department of Defense in the US will continue to monitor the situation
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