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A big European satellite will make an uncontrolled return to Earth Wednesday
What goes up must come down.
Now, more than a dozen years later, the European Remote Sensing 2 satellite is due to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this week. The trade-off for draining propellant more than a decade ago is that there is no fuel to ensure the satellite falls into a remote patch of ocean. Much of the uncertainty is due to solar activity, which affects the density of the upper atmosphere that is slowly dragging the satellite down.
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