The spacecraft, Japan's unmanned cargo ship Kounotori 2, is due to intentionally burn up Tuesday when it re-enters Earth's atmosphere one day after leaving the International Space Station. In addition to the station trash packed on Kounotori 2, a high-tech sensor is ready to track the finer details of the spacecraft's doom, writes Leonard David for Space.com. A so-called Re-entry Breakup Recorder – or REBR for short – small and autonomous sensors will record the firey re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. It shuld provide some quite interesting video on the pull through the gravity well.
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