There are many man made objects in orbit. The mission plan for Geo-stationary satellites is to super-sync them at end of life sending them into a higher orbit out of the way of the rest of the geo constellation. Geo is fairly high orbit, approximately 22,300 miles above the equator, and they need to get them significantly above that to retire them.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:59 AM Clint Bradford via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:
While looking for the comet from Southern California last night (too low to see through city lights), I saw something right above me … moving …
Way too slow to be what I would call “low-earth” stuff …
Which meant is was much higher? Is there “HEO junk” out there?
Puzzled,
Clint K6LCS
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