22 дек. 2022 г. · What happens to old satellites? Well, currently they either burn up upon reentry or they remain in space dead. But all that's going to change with OSAM-1.

Satellites in low orbits at an altitude of a few hundred kilometers from the ground will enter the atmosphere and burn up in several years to several decades.

21 авг. 2023 г. · Low Earth orbit satellites usually decay and burn up, while higher satellites go into graveyard orbits or, if uncontrolled, add to the space junk problem.

16 апр. 2024 г. · The space trash generated by dead and dying commercial satellites could compromise our ionosphere or magnetosphere, also known as our planet's plasma ...

There are two main ways old satellites are disposed of: they're brought back to Earth, or they're sent further away.

6 нояб. 2023 г. · They are either left to die or orbit eternally. Low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, when decommissioned, have no fuel left to sustain their orbit.

31 окт. 2016 г. · Once satellites reach this final orbit their instruments and subsystems are shut down, the remaining fuel is depleted and they are left to orbit ...

2 апр. 2017 г. · The “graveyard orbit” is not an actual orbit but, rather, a region, where old satellites will not pose a threat to those still in service. This ...

16 июл. 2023 г. · It is - usually - a permanent loss. A VERY small number of satellites have been recovered, because they had film on board or some other detection equipment.