Awhile ago on spacedaily.com, they had wrote that a geo sat was de-orbited.
The company in charge of the satellite had adjusted the orbit of the geo
sat, so it drifted and thus no longer stayed in one place. And the new orbit
would help to prevent it crashing into a working geo sat. So wrote to the
editor about what happened to the sat and they corrected the news story.
I the sat decayes out of orbit then it's ok to says it was de-orbited. If it
still goes around the earth, then to me it's still in orbit.
Kevin
Phillip wrote
I would seem that a similar abuse of the "de-orbit" term is used got GEO
satellites. When removed from the GEO band - either up or down - they
are "de-orbited".
Perhaps I am just old-fashioned and too pedantic ......
Phillip Clark
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