• cardfire@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    I’m under the impression all the stuff we send up, for the last 20 years, had an obligation to have scheduled deorbit so that we don’t Wall-E ourselves.

    Was that just for spacecraft, not their payloads?

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      If I remember correctly there is a graveyard orbit where they send out of order satellites to. Some satellites are too far away to completely de-orbit back to earth.