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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT
GSAT 60.81+1.7%3:59 PM EST
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16367)8/30/2000 6:59:45 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 29987
 
<font color=green>When G! satellites re-enter [they don't].

I am reliably informed that my estimate of when the Globalstar satellites might be de-orbited back to earth is wrong.

The correct answer is they will never re-enter. When they are de-orbited, they are kicked upstairs to a parking orbit [I remember that from a year or two ago now when we were discussing it - it's somewhere upstream but I have no idea where].

My main point was that the satellites will be functioning in 2010 very well. Maybe a few will need replacement. But no sign of it so far.

Because they are 1414 km high instead of 800 or so for Iridium, they are pushed upwards. Apparently geostationary satellites are taken out of commission and pushed higher too. So earth will have its own asteroid belt of space debris in a few hundred years!

Thanks to my Keplerian consultant.

Mqurice

PS: I suppose they'll get wobbly in that high orbit over a long period of time and gradually drop in, but we need to think of 100,000 years, not 10 years. In that time, there will have been many large incoming meteorites and comets and nobody will worry about a few bits of CDMA bent pipes after tsunamis have buried huge tracts of land.
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