Reply to post: "No satellite will last anywhere close to 100 years. "

SpaceX didn't move sat out of impending smash doom because it 'didn't see ESA's messages'

John Smith 19 Gold badge
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"No satellite will last anywhere close to 100 years. "

Working satellite? No.

Lump of metal that can crash into something.

Definitely.

At not much higher altitude 1000 year stable orbits are possible.

This is why modern satellites have "graveyard burn" fuel to get them to either re-enter or push them out of the way (Like geo comm sats that are pretty far out already).

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