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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth remote sensing satellite ERS-2, launched in 1995, went out of orbit and burned up in dense layers of the atmosphere. This was
This was reported by Space.com, according to Ukrinform’s report.
Weighing 2.3 tons and about the size of a school bus, ERS-2 was launched from a spaceport in French Guiana in 1995. In September 2011, it completed its work by producing fuel and began to leave orbit.
The satellite entered Earth’s atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii on Wednesday evening. As a result, ERS-2 burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere, but it is not yet known whether its remains reached the surface. The ESA noted that the debris was “not radioactive or toxic.”
At the time of launch, ESA said ERS-2 was the most advanced Earth observation spacecraft ever developed and launched in Europe. The satellite is designed to collect data about Earth’s land, polar caps and oceans, and even help monitor the effects of natural disasters.
According to Ukrinform, the American company SpaceX launched the Merah Putih 2 Internet satellite of the Indonesian Telkomsat company into space.
Photo: ESA
Source: Ukrinform
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