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Reentry of International Space Station Batteries i...
It's basically free to let the orbit decay. It is hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to return it to earth. It doesn't make sense to spend a billion dollars on literal trash.
dotancohen
10 months ago
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It does make sense to steer the literal trash away from population centres.
bagels
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Things that are maneuverable are usually sent to the spacecraft cemetery:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_cemetery
dotancohen
10 months ago
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For LEO objects (which this is), yes.
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