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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by pilsetnieks on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:12PM (#26442545)
I don't think atmospheric drag at 400km is large enough to decay the orbit by half the vertical height of the ISS in half a cycle, though. The ISS itself with it's comparatively huge surface area does orbital reboosts only about once a month or so.[1] Also, my original comment was quite simplistic - a launch with a negative delta-v with no other course correction would result in an elliptic orbit with the same apogee but a lower perigee (and the other way around with a positive delta-v.) Orbits are tricky that way.

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9087/how-often-doe...

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