Bruce Murray Space Image Library

ERS-2 Breaking Before Reentry

ERS-2 Breaking Before Reentry
ERS-2 Breaking Before Reentry Radar images showing the deterioration of ESA's second European Remote Sensing satellite, or ERS-2, as its orbit lowers toward atmospheric reentry. The satellite's solar array appears broken in the last of the three images, which were taken by the Tracking and Imaging Radar at the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR in Germany. Fraunhofer FHR