> For CRS-1 there was a risk of a lower altitude obit, that wasn't the outcome—they lost the satellite. No, that was the outcome. The lower orbit has much more

> For CRS-1 there was a risk of a lower altitude obit, that wasn't the outcome—they lost the satellite. No, that was the outcome. The lower orbit has much more atmospheric drag, resulting in deorbit within a few days. SpaceX and Orbcomm both knew this was a possibility. From Wikipedia: "Both SpaceX and Orbcomm were aware, prior to the mission, of the high risk that the secondary payload satellite could remain at the lower altitude of the Dragon insertion orbit, and that was a risk that Orbcomm agreed to take given the dramatically lower cost of launch for a secondary payload."