I’m under the impression all the stuff we send up, for the last 20 years, had an obligation to have scheduled deorbit so that we don’t Wall-E ourselves.
If I remember correctly there is a graveyard orbit where they send out of order satellites to. Some satellites are too far away to completely de-orbit back to earth.
I’m under the impression all the stuff we send up, for the last 20 years, had an obligation to have scheduled deorbit so that we don’t Wall-E ourselves.
Was that just for spacecraft, not their payloads?
If I remember correctly there is a graveyard orbit where they send out of order satellites to. Some satellites are too far away to completely de-orbit back to earth.