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Month: May 2016

News Re-Entry Re-Entry Feature 

Re-Entry: Flock 2B-8

May 24, 2016May 24, 2016 Patrick Blau 2740 Views CubeSat, Flock, Planet Labs, Re-Entry October 2015

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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Re-Entry: TRAILBLAZER

May 24, 2016 Patrick Blau 2968 Views CubeSat, Re-Entry January 2016

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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News Newsfeed Re-Entry Re-Entry Feature 

Re-Entry: Flock 1E-1

May 19, 2016May 24, 2016 Patrick Blau 2818 Views CubeSat, Flock, Planet Labs, Re-Entry October 2015

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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China Long March Long March 3C Re-Entry Re-Entry Feature 

Re-Entry: Long March 3B Rocket Body from Comm Satellite Launch

May 14, 2016 Patrick Blau 3405 Views

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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China Long March Long March 3C Re-Entry Re-Entry Feature 

Re-Entry: Vostok Rocket Stage

May 14, 2016 Patrick Blau 3087 Views Re-Entry March 2016

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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NASA News Newsfeed Re-Entry Re-Entry Feature 

Re-Entry: DART Autonomous Rendezvous Demonstrator meets its fiery End

May 8, 2016January 29, 2017 Patrick Blau 5631 Views

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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