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Re:DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it ... by leni536 on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:24PM (#22140362)
Interestingly it takes slightly less delta v to send the satelite out of Earth's gravity well from a geo-sync orbit than to deorbit it.
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Re:DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it ... by greglindahl on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:09PM (#22141415)
Yes, direct-to-GEO missions sometimes dispose of the upper rocket stage in solar orbit for this reason.
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