Estonia's ESTCube-2 satellite likely destroyed

A satellite developed by Estonian students, ESTCube-2, was launched aboard Arianespace's Vega rocket on 9 October; however, current suspicions suggest that the satellite did not detach from the launch capsule in the rocket's nose cone, failing to reach orbit and was instead destroyed aboard the carrier rocket upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

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