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Pretty click-bait article. Headline and first paragraph make it sound like they are deorbiting due to a propulsion failure, but the rest clarifies that they are
by dmonitor 4y ago
Pretty click-bait article. Headline and first paragraph make it sound like they are deorbiting due to a propulsion failure, but the rest clarifies that they are intentionally deorbiting in a controlled manner.
- Waterluvian 4y agoYeah. The satellite failed to orbit so they basically instructed it to disintegrate in the atmosphere as safely as possible.
- talboren 4y agoyeah.. so I wouldn't say "intentionally", just sounds like something went wrong and they have this fail-safe mechanism that makes it "okay"
- muskygpt 4y ago[flagged]
- talboren 4y agowell.. it got my attention and had me thinking how's something like that just goes silently "under the radar"