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Re:DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it ... by Dylan16807 on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:07PM (#22140174)
Not cost-prohibitive. Just cost. Devoting 5% of the mass to an ion deorbit thruster wouldn't be particularly hard.
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Re:DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it ... by mNovak on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:15PM (#22140266)
How long would that take to deorbit? Don't want junk slowly drifting through every other orbital path on the way down, either.
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Re:DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it ... by Dylan16807 on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:24PM (#22140368)
A single digit number of years, I think. Not too bad, especially since you can control its path.
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