Space Archaeology (SPACE JUNK) with Alice Gorman
Ologies with Alie Ward
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The Future of Space
Sometimes a satellite gets to the end of its mission life and there's no compelling reason to keep it going so they just stop using it even though it might have fuel and battery. To keep a satellite working in orbit requires teams of people and those resources are sometimes needed elsewhere. There could be all kinds of reasons why a satellite just sort of stops being used whether you then say it's junk if technically it could be reused or how you classify it uh in fact it would be really interesting as far as i know no one's ever made a list of satellites which have the capability of being reused well there you go you just inspired someone's. yes please i can't even imagine what the what a
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