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Tiangong-1 Re-Entry

Tiangong-1 – a ten-meter long, pressurized space station module from China – is approaching an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere in March or April 2018 after suffering a fatal power failure in late 2015, marking the start of a slow descent toward its eventual demise.
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Re-Entry: RXTE
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Re-Entry: RXTE

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The Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE or XTE) spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere on April 30, 2018 after over 22 years in orbit

Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body
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Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body

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The upper stage of a Long March 11 rocket re-entered the atmosphere on April 29, 2018 after only three days in orbit.

Re-Entry: Iridium 13
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Re-Entry: Iridium 13

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Iridium 13 re-entered the atmosphere on April 29, 2018 after over 20 years in orbit as part of the original Iridium Communications Constellation

Re-Entry: Briz-M Auxiliary Propellant Tank
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Re-Entry: Briz-M Auxiliary Propellant Tank

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A Briz-M propellant tank re-entered the atmosphere on April 29, 2018 after three and a half years in orbit, making a slow decay from an elliptical orbit where it arrived as part of a mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.

Re-Entry: STARE B
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Re-Entry: STARE B

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The STARE B (Horus) satellite, launched on a Minotaur rocket as part of the ORS-3 cluster mission, re-entered on April 26, 2018 after four and a half years in orbit.


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