Last year, on December 27, the Russian Angara A5 rocket launched a test flight into space. Persei, the rocket's upper stage booster, was designed to stay in orbit, but Earth's gravity proved too strong for it, and it crashed back to Earth on January 5 in an uncontrolled descent.
In the space community, rocket launch failures are rather regular, and they receive a lot of media attention. Many things, however, can go wrong following a launch. What goes up must fall down, as the saying goes, and spacecraft are no exception. According to CNN, Holger Krag, the head of the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office, 100-200 tons of space debris reach the Earth's atmosphere each year on average.
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