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The spacecraft, known as European Remote Sensing 2 or ERS-2, was an Earth observation satellite that collected data on the planet’s oceans, polar caps and land surfaces. The satellite, launched ...
NASA defines orbital debris as human-made objects in orbit that no longer serve a purpose, like a dead satellite. “The congestion worsens each year,” NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office says.
The Earth-observing ERS-2 satellite first launched on April 21, 1995, and it was the most sophisticated satellite of its kind at the time to be developed and launched by Europe.
Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy non-functioning U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite USA-193. [1] The mission was described by the Missile Defense Agency as a "mission of safeguarding human life against the uncontrolled re-entry of a 5,000-pound satellite containing over 1,000 pounds of hazardous hydrazine propellant". [2]
Galaxy 15 is a U.S. telecommunications satellite launched in 2005. In April 2010, only five years into a planned 15-year mission, its operator, Intelsat, lost control of the satellite and it drifted out of its orbital slot. Several months later, on December 27, 2010, the satellite rebooted itself and began responding to commands again. [5]
1978: the Soviet reconnaissance satellite Kosmos 954 reentered the atmosphere over northwest Canada and scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, some landing in the Great Slave Lake. [4] 1979: portions of Skylab came down over Australia, and several pieces landed in the area around the Shire of Esperance, which fined NASA $400 for ...
NASA's 38-year-old dead satellite has returned to Earth without incident. The Defense Department has confirmed that the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) reentered the atmosphere off the ...
It includes Satellites orbiting Earth that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. The main article for this category is Derelict satellite . This category is for derelict satellites that are currently in orbit around the Earth.