Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

The Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite, which is hosting the instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 ...

In 1993, the Hughes Aircraft Company filed for a license with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to develop Spaceway, ...

It’s hard to design a satellite that can survive the brutal forces of re-entering Earth’s atmosphere at high speeds.

Between 2020 and 2024, 523 Starlink satellites were tracked re-entering our atmosphere, where they are designed to burn up entirely. "In a few years, we will have satellites re-entering every day ...

The probe should re-enter Earth’s atmosphere at 19.2 degrees latitude, 300.8 degrees longitude, she said.

Friday night or Saturday morning, a 53-year-old Soviet spacecraft is due to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere. As I explained in my May “What’s Up In The Sky” feature, the heat-resistant Soviet ...

After entering a parking orbit around Earth, the spacecraft appeared to initiate a transfer toward Venus. It then broke into four components: two remained in low Earth orbit and reentered the ...

What To Know Launched on March 31, 1972, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kosmos 482 was intended to be a Venus probe, according to NASA. After entering a parking orbit around Earth, the spacecraft ...

Kosmos 482 is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere some time within the next week. (NASA) Fifty years ago, the former Soviet Union launched a probe to Venus. Except it never made it.

The Soviet-era spacecraft will plunge through Earth’s atmosphere sometime between May 8 to 12. As of now, the exact location of where Kosmos 482 will crash-land on Earth is still unknown, with a ...

Where will Cosmos 482 land? Kosmos 482 is set to return to Earth May 8 to 12, with more probability centered around May 10. Scientists anticipate the spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere ...