Bus-sized European satellite crashes to Earth over Pacific Ocean

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Artist's illustration of ESA's ERS-2 satellite in Earth orbit. The spacecraft is expected to fall back to Earth in February 2024.A dead European satellite fell back to Earth today, bringing an end to its nearly 30-year life in space.

"We have confirmation of the atmospheric reentry of ERS-2 at 17:17 UTC +/- 1 minute over the North Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii," ESA OperationsIt's unclear if any debris made its way down to the surface after ERS-2 reentered the atmosphere, but none of the fragments contain any toxic or radioactive substances, ESA assured the public in anon X, showing the location of a debris trail recorded by radar systems operated by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric...

Commercial imaging company HEO Robotics captured images of the European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite as it fell towards Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 14, 2024. "The ERS satellites have provided a stream of data which has changed our view of the world in which we live,' ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programs, Simonetta Cheli said in a.

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