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RE:Other system should also be there
by avi on Feb 21, 2008 04:10 PM

Dear Mr. Manish,
Your idea is good but little complicated.
For matter of fact, no country want to leave their satelites and other space vehical in outer sapce for the fear of lekage of know-how.
But at the same time, it is very difficult to bring back a orbiting body to inner sapce and for that case to earth atmoshpare. as You must be well aware that even solid rocks of size of about some km sqaures, while entering into earth atmoshpare start burning and what left of them is just dust and particles.
The USA wants to Destroy this satelite, so that it can avoid any harm to public from burning of posions liquid fuel, which is stored at that satelite. USA can destroy this satelite in OUTER sape, but it is bound by UN treaty not to do so.
On the other hand USA has technology to bring back space ships (like Shuttles), but that technology is new, and very costly in terms of Money as well as effective payload criteria. This technlogy was not used on this perticular satelite, simply at that time it was not there.

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