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Big, dead European satellite will crash back to Earth this month


Big, dead European satellite will crash back to Earth this month A dead European satellite will come crashing back to Earth later this month, in a fiery death dive that its handlers will monitor carefully. The incoming spacecraft is the European Space Agency's (ESA) European Remote Sensing 2 (ERS-2) satellite, which launched to Earth orbit in April 1995 and wrapped up its Earth-observing duties in September 2011.   More



(Source: Space.com - Feb 8)

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