Re-Entry: Dnepr Gas Dynamic Shield
The Gas Dynamic Shield of a Dnepr rocket launched in 2014 re-entered the atmosphere on December 29, 2017.
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Month: December 2017
Re-Entry: Flock 2E-9
Planet’s Flock 2E-9 Earth-imaging satellite re-entered the atmosphere on December 25, 2017 – decaying 19 months after being released from the International Space Station to join Planet’s orbiting constellation of Doves that image the entire Earth at least once per day.
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Re-Entry: GRACE-2
The second spacecraft of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) – run jointly by NASA and the German Aerospace Center – re-entered the atmosphere on Christmas Eve 2017
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Re-Entry: Iridium 6
Iridium 6 re-entered the atmosphere on December 23, 2017 after over 20 years in orbit as part of the original Iridium Communications Constellation, a low-orbiting satellite system for global communications including voice and point-to-point data services via 66 active satellites in six orbital planes.
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Re-Entry: Soyuz FG Upper Stage from Soyuz MS-07 Launch
The third stage of the Soyuz Rocket that helped boost the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft into orbit re-entered the atmosphere three days after launching from the remote Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
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Re-Entry: Kosmos 1346
Kosmos 1346 – a Tselina-D Electronic Intelligence Satellite – re-entered the atmosphere on December 17, 2017 after over 35 years in orbit.
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