The uncontrolled, destructive re-entry of a Soyuz rocket stage that helped boost a three-man crew into orbit earlier this week was seen from the Mediterranean in the early hours of Sunday per reports and videos coming from the French Riviera and Central Italy
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A Block-ML upper stage that had helped send a Molniya-3K dual-use communications satellite into orbit re-entered the atmosphere on March 17, 2018 after bouncing off the atmosphere in July 2016.
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The third Stage of the Soyuz 2-1A rocket that launched the Progress MS-08 spacecraft on its path to the International Space Station re-entered the atmosphere on Friday, February 16, 2018 over Canada.
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The re-entry of an eight-metric-ton Zenit rocket stage was observed from the Peru/Brazil border in the afternoon skies of January 27, 2018, one month after the rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to lift a communications satellite into orbit for Angola.
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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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The Molniya 3-3 (Molniya-3 13L) communications Satellite re-entered the atmosphere on November 19, 2017 after over 40 years in orbit.
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The Molniya 1K-44 Communications Satellite re-entered the atmosphere on October 23, 2017 after 38 years in orbit
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The third Stage of the Soyuz 2-1A rocket that launched the Progress MS-07 spacecraft on its path to the International Space Station re-entered the atmosphere on Monday, October 16, 2017 over the Arabian Peninsula
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The third stage of the Soyuz Rocket that helped boost the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft into orbit re-entered the atmosphere four days after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
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A Briz-M propellant tank re-entered the atmosphere on September 15, 2017 after three and a half years in orbit
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The third Stage of the Soyuz 2-1A rocket that launched the Progress MS-06 spacecraft on its path to the International Space Station re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday, June 17, 2017
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A spent rocket body from a 1974 Molniya launch re-entered the atmosphere on May 31, 2017 after over four decades in orbit.
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A spent rocket body from a 2001 Tsiklon-3 launch re-entered the atmosphere on April 27, 2017 after sixteen years in orbit.
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The Block I third stage from the final Soyuz U rocket to fly to space re-entered the atmosphere on February 24, 2017 two days after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to dispatch the Progress MS-05 cargo spacecraft into orbit for a cargo run to the International Space Station.
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A spent rocket body from a 1988 Molniya launch re-entered the atmosphere on February 7, 2017 after over three decades in orbit.
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The Molniya 3-51 (Molniya-3K-1) Military Communications Satellite re-entered the atmosphere on December 19, 2016 after over 15 years in orbit.
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The third stage of the Soyuz Rocket that helped boost the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft into orbit re-entered the atmosphere this wee, four days after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and dispatching Oleg Novitskiy, Thomas Pesquet and Peggy Whitson into orbit for a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station as part of Expeditions 50 and 51.
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The third stage of the Soyuz Rocket that helped boost the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft into orbit re-entered the atmosphere this weekend, four days after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
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A spent rocket body from a 2004 Molniya launch re-entered the atmosphere on October 12, 2016 after a dozen years in orbit.
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A spent rocket body from a 1997 Molniya launch re-entered the atmosphere on September 30, 2016 after nearly two decades in orbit.
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The third Stage of the Soyuz 2-B rocket that launched the Resurs-P3 Earth Observation satellite re-entered the atmosphere off the cost of North Africa on September 24, 2016 after spending half a year in orbit.
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The fiery demise of a Soyuz rocket stage surprised observers in New Zealand Tuesday night, sparking dozens of reports of a bright meteor over the South Island.
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The third stage of the Soyuz Rocket that helped boost the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft into orbit re-entered the atmosphere this weekend, three days after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and dispatching Anatoli Ivanishin, Takuya Onishi and Kate Rubins into orbit for a four-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
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A Russian rocket motor suffered an explosive break-up on Wednesday, shedding at least 20 pieces of debris in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth.
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Third stage of the Soyuz rocket conducting the maiden flight from Russia’s new Vostochny Cosmodrome re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday, April 30, 2016 after spending just over two days in orbit.
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The final Molniya 1 Military Communications Satellite re-entered the atmosphere on April 16, 2016 after over 12 years in orbit.
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The Soyuz rocket stage involved in the successful launch of the Progress MS-02 cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station re-entered Sunday morning after two and a half days in orbit.
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The Russian Rocket stage that sent the Kanopus-ST on its way in an ill-fated mission last December re-entered the atmosphere on March 16 after a little over three months in orbit.
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The Gas Dynamic Shield of a Dnepr rocket launched in 2011 re-entered the atmosphere on March 3, 2016.
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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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