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European satellite to crash back to Earth within week

"The odds of a piece of satellite falling on someone's head is estimated at one in a billion," said Benjamin Bastida Virgili, an ESA space debris system engineer.

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the ERS-2 satellite in 1995 on a mission to observe Earth. (AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

PARIS - A large satellite which ended its mission 13 years ago will come crashing down to Earth in an uncontrolled manner within the next week, but there

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ESA's ERS-2 satellite
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