Re-Entry: Falcon 9 Second Stage
A Falcon 9 second stage re-entered the atmosphere on September 16, 2017 after spending 16 months slowly spiraling down toward the atmosphere from a Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
Read moreA Falcon 9 second stage re-entered the atmosphere on September 16, 2017 after spending 16 months slowly spiraling down toward the atmosphere from a Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
Read moreA Briz-M propellant tank re-entered the atmosphere on September 15, 2017 after three and a half years in orbit
Read moreThe TuPOD free-flying CubeSat deployer re-entered the atmosphere on September 8, 2017 after close to nine months in orbit following deployment from the International Space Station.
Read moreThe upper stage of a Russian Start-1 booster re-entered the atmosphere on September 3rd, 2017 – spending over a decade in orbit after dispatching the EROS A Earth-observation spacecraft in 2006.
Read moreThe InflateSail CubeSat successfully concluded its mission with a speedy orbital decay, culminating with atmospheric entry on September 3, 2017
Read moreMore trouble appears to be brewing in Geostationary Orbit as reports emerged this week of a satellite breaking apart in prime orbital real estate – the second such incident in as many months, adding to an already significant population of debris and zombie satellites
Read moreThe Centaur upper stage that sent four magnetospheric probes into an elliptical orbit around Earth re-entered the atmosphere on August 28, 2017 after slowly decaying from orbit over the course of two and a half years.
Read moreA Long March 3B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on August 17, 2017 after over five years in orbit, making a slow decay from a highly elliptical Medium Earth Transfer Orbit.
Read moreTechEdSat-5 – a drag brake CubeSat – re-entered the atmosphere on July 29, 2017 after 144 days in orbit
Read morePlanet’s Flock 2E-8 Earth-imaging satellite re-entered the atmosphere on July 25, 2017 – decaying 14 months after being released from the International Space Station to join Planet’s orbiting constellation of Doves that image the entire Earth at least once per day.
Read moreA Long March 3B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on July 21, 2017 after close to a year in orbit, making a slow decay from a highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit. The Long March 3B rocket launched the Tiantong 1-1 mobile communications satellite operating in the S- and UHF communications bands, likely with military use.
Read moreA Long March 3A rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on July 18, 2017 after over one decade in orbit, making a very slow decay from a Medium Earth Transfer Orbit.
Read moreThe Lemur-2 DRMUZZ Satellite, part of Spire Global’s CubeSat Constellation, re-entered the atmosphere on June 25, 2017 after one year in orbit collecting global ship-tracking data and measuring atmospheric parameters.
Read moreThe third Stage of the Soyuz 2-1A rocket that launched the Progress MS-06 spacecraft on its path to the International Space Station re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday, June 17, 2017
Read moreThe BEVO 2 CubeSat from Texas A&M re-entered the atmosphere in June 2017 after close to a year and a half years in orbit following deployment from the AggieSat4 micro satellite which itself was deployed from the International Space Station in January 2016.
Read moreA spent rocket body from a 1974 Molniya launch re-entered the atmosphere on May 31, 2017 after over four decades in orbit.
Read moreA spent Long March 4B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on May 27, 2017 over the Canadian territory after nearly three years in orbit following a dual-payload launch in 2014.
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