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how high would you have to move it, how much fuel would it take, and is that even actually feasible? I suspect the answers to all those questions are why the p
by jki275 2y ago
how high would you have to move it, how much fuel would it take, and is that even actually feasible?
I suspect the answers to all those questions are why the people running NASA decided to bring it down.
- Firerouge 2y agoExcept it sounds like the same shuttle, and amount of fuel, used for the deorbit burn would be sufficient to also put it into a long-term stable orbit instead.
- jki275 2y agoI read elsewhere it would take something like 100x the amount of fuel to move it up to a stable orbit. Maybe people are defining things differently, but bringing it down, just logically, has to be way easier with gravity and atmospheric drag helping.