A special operations request covering the re-entry this evening of Salsa, officially satellite number 2 in the Cluster constellation.

As a final action, a series of dummy commands were uplinked to Salsa, each containing the name of one of the active mission operations team.

The spacecraft responded to each command, acknowledging receipt.

Minutes later, it was gone, burned up in a blaze of glory in Earth’s atmosphere, 24 years after launch.

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