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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Aeolus has become the first ever dead satellite that was assisted back to earth in a bid to avoid space debris. The Aeolus spacecraft, also known as ESA's wind mission, was guided to re-enter Earth's atmosphere, after running out of fuel by the mission officials at ESA. It landed in Antarctica on July 28.
The European Space Agency is purposefully crashing the weather data satellite Aeolus into the Atlantic Ocean in order to lower the danger of debris and show good space management. The goal of this pioneering expedition is to lessen the possibility of debris returning to Earth.
Built by British engineers at Airbus, Aeolus had been orbiting Earth at an altitude of 200 miles (320km) for five years since its launch in 2018. The satellite was launched to measure wind in the atmosphere to improve weather forecasts.
One of the most challenging space missions launched by Europe is about to come out of the sky.
Given the number of human activities that depend on satellites, it�*s a little unnerving how little effort has been made to tackle the problem of spacejunk orbiting our planet. well, tonight that�*s changed. given the number the european space agency has for the first time this evening guided a retired weather satellite, the aeolus, on a journey — resembling something like this — in an asssisted re—entry back into the atmosphere, in order to burn it up rather than littering the cosmic neighbourhood. that feat was accomplished by the agency�*s operations team, jubilant earlier this ...