orbiting

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ADRAS-J will observe the space junk as part of the company’s plans to figure out just how to assist deorbiting the stage on a future mission.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

This all raises the risks of major collisions or deorbiting satellites during the solar maximum, she added.

From Scientific American • Jul. 4, 2023

The deorbiting satellites pose zero collision risk with other satellites and by design demise upon atmospheric reentry—meaning no orbital debris is created and no satellite parts hit the ground.

From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2022

The FCC, for example, only requires that defunct satellites get out of low-Earth orbit within 25 years of a mission’s end—through either natural or intentional deorbiting into the atmosphere, where they burn up.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 6, 2021