Category
page 1Spacecraft retirement
graveyard orbit
supersynchronous orbit where spacecraft are intentionally placed at the end of their operational life
spacecraft cemetery
area in the southern Pacific Ocean where spacecraft have been routinely deposited
2014 Virgin Galactic crash
incident involving the VSS Enterprise
deorbit of Mir
controlled demolition of Russian space station Mir via atmospheric reentry over the Pacific
Space Shuttle retirement
end of NASA's Space Shuttle spacecraft system in 2011
Cassini retirement
final retirement of Cassini space probe in September 2017