Space debris: 'Grandfather satellite' due to fall to Earth
Europe's pioneering ERS-2 Earth observation spacecraft will make an uncontrolled dive to destruction.
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Europe's pioneering ERS-2 Earth observation spacecraft will make an uncontrolled dive to destruction.
By Jonathan AmosScience reporterimage caption, Artwork: Europe's Earth remote sensing satellites weighed about 2.5 tons at launch1 hour agoA
The European Space Agency (Esa) says most of the two-tonne satellite will burn up on the way down.
ERS-2 was a cutting-edge observation platform when it launched in 1995, forging technologies that are now used routinely to monitor the planet.
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