A Long March 2D rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on January 23, 2017 after only 26 days in orbit following the launch of two Gaojing Earth Observation Satellites, inaugurating the SuperView-1 imaging constellation.
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A discarded Ariane 5 Sylda payload adapter placed into orbit in 2007 re-entered the atmosphere on January 7, 2017 after a nine-and-a-half-year drop from a highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit, having helped put a pair of communications satellites into orbit.
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A spent Long March 4B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on January 8, 2017 over the Canadian territory after seven months in orbit.
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Two satellites will come dangerously close to one another Saturday night and a collision can not be ruled out according to a warning issued by the Joint Space Operations Center that monitors all sizeable objects orbiting the Earth.
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Japan’s Shootingstar Sensing Satellite re-entered the atmosphere on November 23, 2016 after 14 months in orbit tasked with collecting data on meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere.
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