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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by tomc1985 on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:08PM (#26442956)
The point isn't really for it to fall into the sun, just to push it to some kind of orbit that is irrelevant to the space junk problem.
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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by rocqua on Saturday March 13, 2021 @03:24AM (#26444991)
Orbits are periodical. Anything you throw at the sun will come back up to the same height soon enough.

(Ignoring smaller effects)

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