Tag: Re-entry

  • Re-entering Chinese rocket stage streaks across Western U.S.

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    Full video of meteor-like event @BadAstronomer pic.twitter.com/q37UzRZKpa — Matt Holt (@mholt6) July 28, 2016 A flaming fragment of space junk from China’s newest satellite launcher blazed through Earth’s atmosphere over the Western United States late Wednesday. Darting across the skies of California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Colorado, the object disintegrated into numerous chunks before disappearing. The…

  • One last task for doomed cargo ship

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Cygnus spaceship departed the space station June 14. Credit: NASA/Tim Kopra With one last task to carry out, a space station Cygnus cargo ship loaded with trash and no-longer-needed equipment fell back to Earth Wednesday, hitting the discernible atmosphere 60 miles or so above the Pacific Ocean…

  • Long-lived tropical weather satellite re-enters

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    Artist’s concept of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. Credit: NASA A 2.9-ton rainfall research satellite fell into Earth’s atmosphere Tuesday for a destructive re-entry after a 17-year mission, according to NASA. Out of fuel and destined for an uncontrolled re-entry, the U.S.-Japanese Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM, switched off its instruments in April as…

  • Rain research satellite ends science mission, heads for re-entry

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    Artist’s concept of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. Credit: NASA NASA has switched off research instruments aboard the long-lived Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, preparing the satellite for a destructive re-entry as soon as June and ending its 17-year run observing tropical cyclones from orbit. The TRMM satellite ran out of fuel last year and began…

  • ATV’s re-entry camera returned no images

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    Artist’s concept of Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle breaking up during re-entry. Credit: ESA A camera packed inside Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle failed to transmit images from inside the disposable supply ship as it plunged through Earth’s atmosphere Feb. 15 and broke apart over the South Pacific Ocean, the European Space Agency said Friday. The robotic…