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.
Read morePlanet 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read morePlanet 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreThe 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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