{"id":183172,"date":"2024-02-20T11:34:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ers-2-a-european-space-agency-satellite-will-reenter-earths-atmosphere-this-week"},"modified":"2024-02-20T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:34:23","slug":"ers-2-a-european-space-agency-satellite-will-reenter-earths-atmosphere-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ers-2-a-european-space-agency-satellite-will-reenter-earths-atmosphere-this-week","title":{"rendered":"ERS-2: A European Space Agency satellite will reenter Earth\u2019s atmosphere this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ers-2-a-european-space-agency-satellite-will-reenter-earths-atmosphere-this-week.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A European Space Agency satellite is expected to reenter and largely burn up in Earth\u2019s atmosphere on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u2019s Space Debris Office, along with an international surveillance network, is monitoring and tracking the Earth-observing ERS-2 satellite, which is predicted to make its reentry at 3:53 p.m. ET Wednesday, with a 7.5-hour window of uncertainty. The ESA is also providing <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rocketscience\/2024\/02\/05\/ers-2-reentry-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\">live updates on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the spacecraft\u2019s reentry is \u2018natural\u2019, without the possibility to perform manoeuvers, it is impossible to know exactly where and when it will reenter the atmosphere and begin to burn up,\u201d according to a statement from the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A European Space Agency satellite is expected to reenter and largely burn up in Earth\u2019s atmosphere on Wednesday morning. The agency\u2019s Space Debris Office, along with an international surveillance network, is monitoring and tracking the Earth-observing ERS-2 satellite, which is predicted to make its reentry at 3:53 p.m. ET Wednesday, with a 7.5-hour window of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2028,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-satellites","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}