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Decommissioned NOAA weather satellite breaks up

submitted by veo to Space 4.2 yearsMar 21, 2021 21:20:04 ago (+2/-0)     (spacenews.com)

https://spacenews.com/decommissioned-noaa-weather-satellite-breaks-up/



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[ - ] dominus_stercae 0 points 4.2 yearsMar 22, 2021 08:32:50 ago (+0/-0)*

Its operational orbit was ~800 km. At that altitude debris will be up there for quite a few years (depending on the ballistic coefficients of the fragments).

The old NOAA satellites are pretty cool as their signals are easy to receive and decode.