Re-Entry: TRAILBLAZER
The TRAILBLAZER CubeSat, launched on a Minotaur rocket as part of the ORS-3 cluster mission, re-entered on May 22, 2016 after over two and a half years in orbit.
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Re-Entry January 2016
Re-Entry: CHARGERSAT
The CHARGERSAT CubeSat, launched on a Minotaur rocket as part of the ORS-3 cluster mission, re-entered on February 4, 2016 after over two years in orbit.
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Re-Entry: AAUSAT 5
The Danish AAUSAT 5 CubeSat, launched aboard the HTV-5 cargo spacecraft and deployed from the International Space Station, re-entered on March 15, 2016 after five months in orbit.
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Re-Entry: TX 1
The Chinese TX 1, launched on a Long March 4B rocket, re-entered on February 7, 2016 after over four years in orbit.
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Re-Entry of Chinese Rocket Stage seen over Hawaii
Truly spectacular photos of a re-entering rocket stage were captured on Saturday by astrophotographer Steve Cullen who happened to stop at just the right time to capture nightscape panoramas at Mauna Kea, Hawaii showing the blazing demise of a Long March 3B upper stage.
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Re-Entry: Briz-M Auxiliary Propellant Tank
A Briz-M propellant tank re-entered the atmosphere on January 15, 2016 after seven years in orbit
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Re-Entry: Long March 3B Rocket Body
A Long March 3B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on January 15, 2016 after three months in orbit, making a slow decay from a highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Re-Entering Rocket Debris captured on Video
A Ukrainian Group of meteor observers captured the re-entry of a piece of Russian rocket debris as it re-entered back on January 3, 2016.
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Re-Entry: CENTENNIAL 1
The CENTENNIAL 1 Satellite satellite, released from the Space Station in 2015, re-entered on January 6, 2016 after six months in orbit.
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Rocket Parts crash-land in Vietnam
Rocket debris crash landed in Vietnam last weekend when the spent second stage of a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit rocket re-entered over south-east Asia.
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