cemetery

Spacecraft Cemetery lies offshore New Zealand in an oceanic stretch known for being completely isolated. Since 1971, its icy waters have served as final resting places for hundreds of satellites and other objects made by human hands that have fallen from orbit or have otherwise become redundant. Once a spacecraft or satellite reaches its end […]

At sea, in a faraway corner of the Pacific Ocean lies an extraordinary graveyard of spacecraft known as “The Spacecraft Cemetery”. Here can be found hundreds of decommissioned satellites and other spacecraft that were carefully guided here once their lifespans ended. To minimize the chance that debris might accidentally land in an urban center, this

New Zealand, which lies off the coast of South Pacific Ocean, hosts one of the geekiest junkyards ever known: an underwater cemetery filled with over 140 Russian resupply spacecraft, six Russian Salyut space stations and four Japanese HTV cargo craft. As soon as a satellite or spacecraft reaches the end of its mission, it must

Engineers usually place decommissioned spacecraft into graveyard orbits to reduce the likelihood of colliding with active satellites or even other spacecraft. However, larger objects like space stations that don’t explode upon reentry are sent to a spacecraft cemetery located at Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean. What is a spacecraft cemetery? Spacecraft cemeteries are designated