Why is nobody talking about the fact that NASA dropped a 1,300-pound satellite into the ocean this week?

The Van Allen Probe A—a spacecraft the size of a small car—came crashing back to Earth on Wednesday morning.

Most of it burned up in the atmosphere. Whatever survived? Splashed down west of the Galapagos Islands. No damage. No danger. Just a controlled ending for a mission that lasted 12 years longer than planned.

Sometimes the craziest things happen in complete silence.