A massive, dead ESA satellite will fall back to Earth later this month. The satellite, which is known as ERS-2, first launched into orbit in 1995. Now, almost thirty years later, it will return to ...

But just when and where the satellite will re-enter the atmosphere ... The Defense Department initially forecasts that RHESSI will reenter Earth’s atmosphere around 9:30 p.m. Eastern time ...

The satellite was launched in 1995, retired in 2011, and has been gradually making its way back to Earth since then. The ESA's predictions as of Tuesday afternoon are that the dead satellite will ...

Astronomers are puzzled by a strong burst of radio waves traced back to a NASA satellite that had been inactive since the ...

NASA’s Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) is no more after almost ... It’s been getting pulled slowly back towards Earth ever since. Based on the possible re-entry tracks for ERBS ...

The now-defunct satellite ERS-2 disintegrated over the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, returning to Earth after more than ten years in space, between Alaska and Hawaii, according to the European Space ...

A vintage NASA satellite launched in the 1980s and long-since turned to space junk met a fiery fate late Sunday as it fell back to Earth, NASA said today. The huge Earth observation satellite ...

In Graphics: A dead satellite will crash back to Earth this Wednesday. What to know. After its final image, the ESA conducted 66 de-orbiting maneuvers that prevented the satellite from remaining ...

A dead European Space Agency ... ESA said on its website. The satellite was launched in 1995, retired in 2011, and has been gradually making its way back to Earth since then.

After 38 years in orbit, a dead NASA satellite has returned ... It’s unclear exactly how much of this old satellite survived the fall back to Earth. Josh Hawkins has been writing for over ...