14 had already returned to earth of course some may have been brought back due to to malfunctions but a lot of the small satellites only have short lifespans and could have already completed their missions.
Satellite falling to earth april 2018.
On april 1 2018 china s tiangong 1 space laboratory fell out of the sky breaking apart and burning up in the skies over the southern pacific ocean at about 8 16 p m.
New observations show that earth s gravity has finally caught up with the 1 070 lb.
Satellite images from 2018.
487 kilograms satellite which is expected to die a fiery death in our planet s atmosphere this weekend.
Chinese satellite falls to earth mostly burns up on re entry.
A defunct chinese space station is expected to plunge to earth from its orbital perch in early april.
The spacecraft is expected to crash uncontrolled sometime overnight on april 1 or 2.
April 2 2018 11 09 am cbs ap.
Edt 0016 april 2 gmt.
According to the ucs database of the 453 objects launched in 2017 only 390 of them were still in space at the end of the april 2018.