It’s the beginning of the end for Cluster… 🛰️ #shorts
Today, Salsa, the first of four satellites that make up our Cluster mission, will reenter Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area.
This marks the end of the historic mission, over 24 years after it was sent into space to measure Earth’s magnetic environment. Though the remaining three satellites will also stop making scientific observations, discoveries using existing mission data are expected for years to come.
This ‘targeted reentry’ is the first of its kind. ESA’s efforts to ensure a clean end to the Cluster mission go beyond international standards, making the agency a world-leader in sustainable space exploration.
📹 ESA – European Space Agency
#ESA #Cluster #Satellite
They don’t give into earths gravity. Gravity is what maintains the orbit. It’s more of them giving into earths atmosphere. The entire time their up there their in a decaying orbit due to slight amount of atmospheric drag or drag from solar wind. Many just accept a slowly decaying orbit or keep it in check with thrusters. Anyways the satellites give into the atmosphere not the gravity. Once your at a certain orbital velocity you are no longer fighting gravity.
What is gravity easly 😮
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Thank you for being mindful about space junk. Heres to a future with a cleaner orbit
Pollute the oceans. Meh.
Just send them into the sun.
Wouldn't it make WAY more sense to keep a storage of non-classified satellites to be used for scrap metal later, rather than throwing it all back down to Earth? We WILL want to build stuff in space at some point, and the sarellites would be a great salvage yard for all sorts of metals. Just need an official 'junkyard' to place them all in.😅😊