If all goes as planned, it will be a significant milestone in spaceflight.
Four additional burning maneuvers are expected on Thursday, July 27, which will help to decrease the orbit further.
"A final command [on July 28] will guide Aeolus home from an altitude of 150 km to just 120 km [93 to 75 miles]. Then, the satellite will reenter," mentioned the Reentry will most likely take place over the Atlantic Ocean roughly five hours after the spacecraft receives the last maneuver order.Following the last commands, Aeolus will enter the “passivation” state, where all energy aboard the spacecraft will be turned off.
Initially, this satellite was not designed for aided reentry. In recent years, only assisted reentry of rockets over a designated open ocean region has taken place.This 3,000-pound satellite was launched in 2018. The wind monitoring satellite was supposed to last three years, but Aeolus outlived its mission life and orbited our planet for nearly five years.
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