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2 years after last activity
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18 months
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Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked
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24 hours
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1 minute
Chandramohan P.R says
Sputniks were not designed for a safe entry.They lost altitude, entered earths atmosphere and burned out.But many satellites were recovered lke Zond which went around moon.
Voyager 2 is about 90 A U from earth at the limit where the solar wind just ends.
Captain of Science says
Yes, Sputnik 1 fell back down to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere after 57 days in orbit. Voyager 2 is in the heliosheath, which is right on the edge of the defined boundary of the Solar System, where the outward pressure of the "solar wind" is finally equalized by the inward pressure of interstellar gas, making it roughly 8.550 billion miles from Earth. It will never come back again by itself, it is bound for interstellar space, where its plutonium power supply (yes, a plutonium power pack) will keep it going for a very long time, but it will eventually just die and become completely useless space debris that will, for some odd reason then become self-aware and return to Earth as a super-massive spaceship that destroys spacecraft and eventually threatens Earth itself looking for its Creator in the original Star Trek movie.