It's a fact of life I guess - cut and paste articles with a little theatrical embellishment by experts who get hired for the letters after the name. It used to be called "hack" reporting before the advent of word processors. Measat 3 has reached graveyard orbit. It did not involve the "fiery doom" and uncontrolled tumbling as speculated by SPACE.com. I've summarised everything I could find here and included a couple of plots showing the orbit and the drift around GEO https://www.zarya.info/Diaries/blog/tracks.php?event=Measat%203 Robert Christy > On 14 Aug 2021, at 11:46, Ted Molczan via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote: > > The author seems to have misunderstood the meaning of de-orbit in the context of a geosynchronous orbit. > > Ted Molczan > > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sun Aug 15 2021 - 08:51:23 UTC
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