Russian Rocket Stage suspected of suffering In-Orbit Breakup
A Russian Briz-M rocket stage broke apart in orbit this week and created a cloud of debris in a highly elliptical orbit.
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Month: January 2016
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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Re-Entry: ORSES
The ORS Enabler Satellite satellite, launched on a Minotaur rocket as part of the ORS-3 cluster mission, re-entered on January 3, 2016 after over two years in orbit.
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