Commercial imaging company HEO Robotics captured images of the European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite as it falls towards Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 14, 2024.on Feb. 14, 2024 as the satellite made an ungraceful fall towards our planet. ERS-2, or European Remote Sensing 2, launched in 1995 and spent 16 years observing our planet from space until its mission ended in 2011.
Commercial imaging company HEO Robotics captured images of the European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite as it falls towards Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 14, 2024.ERS-2"was the most sophisticated Earth-observation spacecraft ever developed and launched by Europe," ESA officials wrote. The satellite weighs 5,047 pounds when empty as it is now, pretty large for a piece of space debris.
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