Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite that Collects Climate Data

• Vorticity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Being that they’re in low earth orbit, they do require some human intervention for station keeping. They also need to monitor the orbits and move the satellite at times to avoid collisions with debris. Lastly, they need to monitor for anomalies so that, if something does go wrong, they can safely dispose of the satellite before the satellite itself becomes another piece of debris.

  That, plus data collection and dissipation are the reason the satellites cost $15M/year to operate. The administration wants OCO2 deorbited. I’m not sure what they want done with OCO3 since it is attached to the ISS.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Just let MS Copilot take care of it

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