Re-Entry: Flock 1E-9
Planet Labs’ Flock 1E-9 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on February 8, 2016 after seven months in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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Briz-M Upper Stage again involved in Orbital Debris Event
A nearly four-year old Russian Briz-M rocket suffered an in-orbit break-up event last December, data provided by the Joint Space Operations Center shows, adding to the orbital debris problem caused by multiple Briz-M break-up events in recent years.
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Re-Entry of Chinese Rocket Stage seen over Hawaii
Truly spectacular photos of a re-entering rocket stage were captured on Saturday by astrophotographer Steve Cullen who happened to stop at just the right time to capture nightscape panoramas at Mauna Kea, Hawaii showing the blazing demise of a Long March 3B upper stage.
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Russian Rocket Stage suspected of suffering In-Orbit Breakup
A Russian Briz-M rocket stage broke apart in orbit this week and created a cloud of debris in a highly elliptical orbit.
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Re-Entering Rocket Debris captured on Video
A Ukrainian Group of meteor observers captured the re-entry of a piece of Russian rocket debris as it re-entered back on January 3, 2016.
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Rocket Parts crash-land in Vietnam
Rocket debris crash landed in Vietnam last weekend when the spent second stage of a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit rocket re-entered over south-east Asia.
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Re-Entry: Flock 1D-2
Planet Labs’ Flock 1D-2 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on December 27, 2015 after eight months in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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Light Show in Las Vegas Skies – Soyuz Rocket Stage burns up over United States
Just days after the blazing re-entry of the rocket from the launch of a three-man crew to the International Space Station dazzled observers in Newfoundland and Labrador, another Soyuz rocket stage was spotted re-entering over North America.
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Fiery Re-Entry of Soyuz Booster puts on Spectacular Show over Newfoundland
The spent rocket stage that delivered a crew of three to orbit earlier in the week put on a spectacular show for observers in North America when slamming into Earth’s atmosphere and breaking apart in a bright fireball moving silently across the night sky.
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Russia’s Kanopus ST Satellite meets its End in fiery Re-Entry after failed Launch
Russia’s Kanopus ST ocean surveillance satellite met its untimely end over the Atlantic Ocean in the early hours on Tuesday, re-entering the atmosphere along with its Volga upper stage from which the satellite failed to separate after launch. Orbital data released in the overnight hours showed that a piece of debris detached from the spacecraft and re-entered about an hour prior to the parent object.
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Coverage: Russian Submarine-Tracking Satellite heads for Destructive Re-Entry
The Russian Volga Upper Stage and Kanopus ST submarine-tracking satellite are rapidly approaching an untargeted destructive re-entry after completing a significant orbit-lowering maneuver in response to the failed separation of the satellite following its arrival in a 690-Kilometer orbit on Saturday.
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NOAA 16 Satellite Breakup leaves Dozens of Debris in Orbit
The in-orbit break-up of the NOAA 16 weather satellite left a cloud of dozens of debris in orbit, data released by the Joint Space Operations Center indicates. The debris event was detected on November 25 when ground-based radars sensed a number of debris in the vicinity of the NOAA 16 satellite that had been retired since 2014.
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Re-Entry: Prometheus 1-8
The Prometheus 1-8 satellite, one of eight secretive satellites operated by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, re-entered on December 1, 2015 after two years in orbit.
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Re-Entry: Prometheus 1-5
The Prometheus 1-5 satellite, one of eight secretive satellites operated by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, re-entered on November 29, 2015 after two years in orbit.
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Re-Entry: C/NOFS
The C/NOFS satellite of the United States Air Force re-entered the atmosphere on November 28, 2015 after seven and a half years in orbit.
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Re-Entry: Vermont Lunar CubeSat
The Vermont Lunar CubeSat re-entered the atmosphere on November 21, 2015 after spending exactly two years in Orbit, dedicated to the demonstration of technology for a CubeSat mission to lunar orbit.
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Re-Entry: ETS-7
The Japanese ETS-7 Engineering Test Satellite, the first uncrewed spacecraft to deploy a robotic arm to space for rendezvous & docking operations, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere after 18 years in orbit.
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Observers Capture blazing Re-Entry of unidentified Object WT1190F
The mysterious object known as WT1190F met its fiery demise over the Indian Ocean on Friday the 13th after creating a media buzz across the Internet.
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WT1190F Mystery Object to re-enter Friday, Observation Campaign ready for Takeoff
The WT1190F mystery object is a mere hours from meeting its fiery end when re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere south of India on Friday, but astronomers are still not sure of the object’s origins. WT1190F was observed on and off starting in 2009 and was positively identified as a human-made object likely originating in a mission to the Moon. Possibly, it represents a component of one of the Apollo rockets or spacecraft, but it may also be a remnant of a more recent mission to the Moon.
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Re-Entry: GEARRS-1
The GEARSS-1 technology demonstration satellite of the New Space Launch re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday after eight months in orbit.
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Satellite Re-Entry witnessed from Northern United States
The NFIRE Near Field Infrared Experiment satellite of the Missile Defence Agency re-entered the atmosphere on Wednesday after eight and a half years in orbit to complete a demonstration mission of sensing equipment for the detection of thermal signatures of ascending ballistic missiles and the differentiation between the missile’s plume and the rocket itself.
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Mystery Object WT1190F approaches Earth for fiery Re-Entry – Long-Lost Apollo 10 Module or Run-of-the-Mill Rocket Stage?
A very rare breed of unidentified space object in a suicidal orbit is approaching its fiery demise in two weeks
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Re-Entry: NPS-SCAT
The NPS-SCAT satellite of the Space Systems Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School re-entered the atmosphere on Wednesday after nearly two years in orbit.
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Re-Entry: Flock 1B-6
Planet Labs’ Flock 1B-6 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on October 16, 2015 after seven and a half months in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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Re-Entry: Flock 1B-27
Planet Labs’ Flock 1B-27 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on October 14, 2015 after seven and a half months in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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Re-Entry: Soyuz U Rocket Stage from recent Progress Launch
The third Stage of the Soyuz U rocket that launched the Progress M-29M spacecraft on its path to the International Space Station re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday over the Pacific Ocean.
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Re-Entry: Flock 1B-22
The Flock 1B-22 satellite re-entered the atmosphere Friday night after spending seven months in orbit following its release from the International Space Station.
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Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body
The fourth stage of the first Long March 11 rocket re-entered from its short-lived orbit on Thursday.
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HTV-5 ends six-week ISS Cargo Mission with destructive Re-Entry
The HTV-5 spacecraft brought to an end a five week mission into space on Tuesday, burning up in the atmosphere after making a targeted deorbit maneuver.
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