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		n6h6 on Aug 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprising... while they don't have the fuel to deorbit themselves, they will eventually deorbit due to orbital decay. Still, as you said, they won't fall straight down, and would probably burn up in the atmosphere regardless.

sam_bristow on Aug 11, 2023 [–]

In the case of satellites in GEO that "eventually" is on the order of millions of years. For LEO it's a lot shorter obviously.

n6h6 on Aug 12, 2023 | [–]

that's actually a good point, I didn't know orbital decay was so slow

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