Tag Archives: re-entry

Space debris from the SpaceX Dragon capsule crashed into the mountains of North Carolina. I had to go and see (video)

Spaceflight doesn’t usually come to mind when thinking of the serene, lush mountains of North Carolina. It’s true that in the early 1960s, NASA built the (now defunct) Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Facility among the rolling hills of Appalachia to track Soviet satellites and relay communications for the Gemini and Apollo programs. And… Read More »

Crash of large, dead satellite is space junk wake-up call, experts say

There’s some interesting fallout from the recent dive of the European Remote Sensing satellite, or ERS-2, to Earth. ERS-2 studied our planet for nearly 16 years after its launch in April 1995. Later in 2011 European Space Agency (ESA) decided to end the mission of the radar-carrying spacecraft. The agency commandeered a series of deorbiting… Read More »