/sci/ - Science & Math

The ESA satellite ERS-2, launched way back in 1995, has spent the last 12 years inactive and placed into a decaying orbit.

>Over the weekend, ESA's Space Debris Office released its latest re-entry prediction, saying the satellite will likely burn up over Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday morning, plus or minus a margin of about 18 hours. The landing and re-entry location uncertainty will decrease as the spacecraft's end nears.

The usual autistic screeching from the media regarding Chinese Long March upper stage tanks burning up uncontrolled... is strangely missing and silent this time. Why is that? This thing is the size of a school bus.