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BirdDog
8 years agoAssistant Professor
I find these kind of news articles interesting.......
Echostar sending a satellite to the boneyard: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/echostar-iii-satellite-recovered-retired-150000045.html
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Don't usually hear about satellites beyond their life expectancy, served a good long life into old age I suppose.
Pretty cool. :)
"now safely in a graveyard orbit more than 350 kilometers above the geostationary arc" - More space junk. :(
We really should just push them towards the sun. Its like putting wood in a fire right? Keep it burnin'
And if we miss, we may have an incoming man made meteor. :)
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