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Kind of sad ending for that cute, useful, little box to just burn up in the atmosphere. Makes me wonder if this is actually a viable approach on a larger scale
by freeflight 8y ago
Kind of sad ending for that cute, useful, little box to just burn up in the atmosphere.
Makes me wonder if this is actually a viable approach on a larger scale, in terms of resource costs? Or is the "burn it up at the end" just part of this specific experiment and future versions won't have to be disposed of like that?
- 7952 8y agoSurely, de-orbiting is how you remove the space junk from orbit.
- freeflight 8y agoAgreed on the junk, but does the satellite itself really need to be burned too? With the amount of space-junk floating around it might be kinda wasteful to burn the whole thing with the junk, that's why I was wondering about reusability of the satellite itself.