Spacecraft cemetery
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Spacecraft Cemetery in Pacific Ocean
The so-called Spacecraft Cemetery is an area in the southern Pacific Ocean 3900 km southeast of Wellington, New Zealand,[1] where spacecraft, notably the defunct Mir space station and waste-filled Progress cargo ships are and have been routinely deposited. It has been chosen for its remoteness, as not to endanger or harm human life.
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- ^ "NZ spacecraft cemetery gets another skip from orbit". 18 January 2007. http://newszealand.blogspot.com/2007/01/nz-spacecraft-cemetery-gets-another.html. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
Coordinates: 43°34′48″S 142°43′12″W / 43.58°S 142.72°W
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