spacecraft and generating space debris.

Overview

A graveyard orbit is used when the change in velocity required to perform a de-orbit maneuver is too large. De-orbiting a geostationary satellite requires a delta-v of about 1500 m/s, whereas re-orbiting it to a graveyard orbit requires only about 11 m/s.

For satellites in geostationary orbit

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