Re-Entry: Vostok Rocket Stage
A 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.
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Re-Entry March 2016
Re-Entry: Russian Rocket Stage from recent ISS Cargo Launch
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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Re-Entry: SERPENS
Brazil’s SERPENS CubeSat, launched aboard the HTV-5 cargo spacecraft and deployed from the International Space Station in September 2015, re-entered on March 27, 2016 after six months in orbit.
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Re-Entry: Long March 3C Rocket Body
A Long March 3C rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on March 23, 2016 after one year in orbit, making a slow decay from a highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Re-Entry: Soyuz Rocket Stage from ill-fated Kanopus Launch
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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Re-Entry: Centaur Upper Stage
A spent Centaur Rocket Stage re-entered on March 15, 2016 after 23 and a half years in orbit.
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Re-Entry of Chinese Spy Satellite Observed from Bolivia
The Re-Entry of a the Chinese ZiYuan-2 A reconnaissance satellite was observed over Bolivia on March 11 after fifteen and a half years in orbit.
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Re-Entry: Soyuz Rocket Stage from Image Reconnaissance Satellite Launch
The third Stage of the Soyuz 2-1A rocket that launched the Bars-M mapping and reconnaissance imaging satellite re-entered the atmosphere over Indonesia on March 1, 2016 after one year in orbit.
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