Old Satellites Still Circle Earth Decades After Launch

Old Satellites Still Circle Earth Decades After Launch
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Old Satellites Still Circle Earth Decades After Launch

Earth is ringed by tens of thousands of human-made objects, from functioning communications platforms to silent scraps of metal, and some of those objects have been circling our planet since the very beginning of the Space Age. This piece looks at why a few of those machines have endured for decades, which early satellites are...