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		sylvinus on Aug 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new sa... Will all these cheap satellites (from NASA or hobbyists, there are a couple of them on Kickstarter) cleanly de-orbit themselves or are we just adding up to the space junk at this point?

StuieK on Aug 27, 2012 [–]

They are all put into orbits that decay to prevent this problem.

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