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GPS is a great example - how many satellites would need to be zapped/cooked/exploded/de-orbited from the constellation before its utility is compromised?
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This will be difficult, as this will probably require creating a rocket stage that can be de-orbited and then recovered, likely from the ocean.
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Add a belief that the ISS WILL be abandoned in 2016 and de-orbited in 2017 (contrary to congressional authorization/amendment language), and even more money is available for space transportation.
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Half a dozen cargo craft have been de-orbited since they tossed this over the side, all landing precisely where they were aimed, and with no harm done.
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The ISS would have to be de-orbited in 2016 to allow a return to the Moon by about 2025.
Committee Urges Multi-Destination Plan for NASA Human Space Flight | Universe Today 2009
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The space station Mir is in the final stages of a 15-year odyssey, gradually being de-orbited by Russian Mission Control.
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But, again, to emphasize to people that the Russians have done this time and time again with just the smaller progress ships for many, many years, and they have successfully de-orbited five space stations before.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Mir Falls to Earth - March 23, 2001 2001
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It was actually scheduled to be de-orbited just a-- later this spring, February or March, as we understand it.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Russia Loses Contact With Mir - December 26, 2000 2000
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He said in a web-posted statement that the station will have to be de-orbited in a "planned crash so that there is no space junk left behind."
The Seattle Times 2011
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He said in a web-posted statement that the station will have to be de-orbited in a "planned crash so that there is no space junk left behind."
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