Re:SpaceX to deliver vehicle to deorbit International Space ...
by perihelions on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @08:20PM
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It's far more expensive, in the orbital mechanics sense, to do anything like that than to "simply"* nudge an end-of-life satellite just enough to push into the atmosphere, when it's starting from an already-low orbit.
*(The engineering here is not very simple)