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To: Ilaine who wrote (7814)	8/27/2001 5:36:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<By international convention, they must retain enough fuel to deorbit, which means burn up in the earth's atmosphere, gone forever> No, some satellites are sent upstairs to satellite heaven. A permanent graveyard in the sky. I'm not sure what level the junkyard in the sky is, but I think that's where Globalstar satellites will end up rather than dropped into the atmosphere. Mq [I'm wading back upstream, against gravity, to answer your posts]