Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Long-lived ERS-2 satellite retires


The long-lasting and long-working European Remote Sensing satellite -2 (ERS-2) is retiring and moving to a lower orbit, so that it will eventually be atmospherically cremated.

Here's to many more orbits of doing nothing, because it did a great job.

Pioneering ERS-2 satellite retires

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