The last two spacecraft of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Cluster mission plunged into Earth’s atmosphere this week, closing out 26 years of research into the planet’s magnetic environment — and handing scientists a front-row seat to their destruction. ESA’s Samba spacecraft reentered the atmosphere on Aug. 31 at 5:39 p.m. EDT, disintegrating over aContinue reading “Scientists watch as two satellites burn”
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