Space debris: the ‘grandfather satellite’ will fall to Earth

[ad_1] By Jonathan Amos scientific correspondent Screenshot, Artwork: European Earth remote sensing satellites weighed around 2.5 tons at launch 1 hour before A pioneering European satellite will fall to Earth in the next few hours. ERS-2 was a cutting-edge observation platform when it launched in 1995, forging technologies that are now routinely used to monitor … Read more