Re-Entry: Flock 2B-8
Planet Labs’ Flock 2B-8 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on May 22, 2016 after half a year in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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Month: May 2016
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: Flock 1E-1
Planet Labs’ Flock 1E-1 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on May 18, 2016 after ten months in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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Re-Entry: Long March 3B Rocket Body from Comm Satellite Launch
A Long March 3B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on May 14, 2016 after a little over six months in orbit, making a slow decay from a highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit. The Long March 3B rocket launched the ChinaSat-2C communications satellite.
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Re-Entry: Vostok Rocket Stage
A Vostock rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on May 13, 2016 after over 35 years in orbit, making a slow decay after launching the Meteor 1-30 weather satellite for the Soviet Union in 1980.
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Re-Entry: DART Autonomous Rendezvous Demonstrator meets its fiery End
The DART spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday, May 7, 2016 after over a decade in orbit, following a launch in April 2005.
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