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NASA's Van Allen Probe A, a 1,323-pound spacecraft that spent nearly 14 years studying Earth's radiation belts, is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry into Earth's atmosphere on March 10, 2026. While the risk to any individual is extremely low, the event spotlights a rapidly growing challenge: with orbital launches quadrupling since 2015 and over 40,000 tracked objects now circling the planet, uncontrolled satellite reentries are becoming an almost daily occurrence.