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Decommissioning satellites

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May 2, 2022

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How are old satellites decommissioned. We spoke about this in one of our previous episodes, but didn't go into detail. This episode, we talk about how massive achievements like the Hubble Space Telescope will be decomissioned.

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May 2, 2022

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