North Korea’s first-ever satellite is likely to soon fall out of orbit and disintegrate in the atmosphere after over a decade in space, experts assessed this week.

Available evidence suggests the Kwangmyongsong-3-2 (KMS-3-2) satellite has not been operational since shortly after the DPRK launched it in 2012, while the country has failed to place a new military spy satellite into orbit twice this year.

Marco Langbroek, a lecturer at Delft Technical University, posted on social media that the KMS-3-2 “has now no more than a mere week left in orbit.”

The expert estimated the device, the DPRK’s last remaining