So - if a satellite is in a rather large orbit, people will retire it by putting it into a larger orbit. If it is a smaller orbit - say 20,000 km above the Earth, to about 1,000 km - will they still try to make the high climb to a few hundred kms above functional GEO satellites, or just smash it into the atmosphere and/or ocean? Do they do this to retiring GEO satellites, because they can't guarentee that they will be able to successfully deorbit them? ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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