Nasa says its six-tonne UARS satellite plunged to Earth over the Pacific Ocean, off the US west coast.
An interceptor missile launched over the Pacific Ocean, designed to destroy a dummy warhead, failed to separate from its booster rocket early Saturday.
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The vehicle will take this waste into a controlled burn-up over the Pacific Ocean when it leaves the station sometime from June onwards.
The good news was that the wind was blowing from the northwest and sending the smoke from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant over the Pacific Ocean.
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It is scheduled to stay at the ISS until August, after which it will undock and take station rubbish into a controlled burn-up over the Pacific Ocean.
Pentagon officials promised to press forward with plans for more tests of the system after an interceptor missile hit a dummy warhead over the Pacific Ocean on Saturday.
Melor is expected to weaken to a tropical storm before moving back out over the Pacific Ocean south of Hokkaido, where it will become an extra-tropical system over open water later on Thursday.
It shocked the world in 1998 by firing a Taepodong missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean.
But it may try to fire a missile over the top of Japan in to the Pacific Ocean.
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Meanwhile, a team of Yamaha motorcycle designers will attempt to set a world record of their own when they fly their pedal-powered airplane over 75 miles of the Pacific Ocean.
The country's most recent long-range missile launch happened in April 2009 from a base near Musudan-ri, on North Korea's northwest coast, and flew eastward over Japan before crashing in the Pacific Ocean about 1, 270 kilometers east of Japan.
And he describes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous expanse of the Pacific Ocean where currents concentrate the trash over a continent-sized area.
If something happened along the way to mess up that trip say a critical database falls over in a critical datacenter or California falls into the Pacific Ocean then it would certainly disrupt its services.
"Taepodong shock" followed in 1998, when North Korea lobbed a ballistic missile over Honshu, the main Japanese island, and into the Pacific Ocean.
The forecasters base their prediction on the cooling of the Atlantic Ocean over the past several months and the increased chances of an El Nino, or warming of Pacific waters, over this year's hurricane season.
French Polynesia is made up of some 200 islands -- the Society, Tuamotu, Gambier, Austral and Marquesas groups -- spread over 4.1 million square kilometres of Pacific Ocean: an area roughly eight times the size of France.
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