0
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 0001
0 points (NaN% liked)
0 readers
0 users here now
founded a long while ago
Question: why deorbit vs push out of orbit away from earth?
To paraphrase an answer I read elsewhere: de-orbiting would be like pushing it down from the first step of a long flight of stairs. Pushing it away from Earth would require ascending the long flight of stairs, which is much harder.
So the space dolphins can live without the fear of being hit by a big metal thing.
But actually because it would probably require less Δv