28th October 2019

Samsung Selfie Satellite Lands in Michigan Family's Backyard

By PC Mag

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A Samsung satellite that let consumers take selfies in space abruptly fell back to Earth on Saturday morning and landed on a Michigan family's property.

Resident Nancy Welke heard the satellite crash at about 8:45 a.m. local time outside her home. She and her husband went to investigate and found Samsung's "SpaceSelfie" satellite, still "humming and whirring," according to the Gratiot County Herald. (Photos of the downed satellite posted on Facebook show it tipped over.)

Samsung launched the satellite earlier this month as part of marketing campaign in Europe to "give consumers the chance to get their face in space," according to a company press release. The satellite did that by carrying a Galaxy S10 5G smartphone, to which consumers could send their selfies. A separate camera then took a picture of the smartphone displaying the selfie as the satellite hovered in space, with the Earth in the backdrop.