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[Joe King]

The answer is simple, its the accountant's fault.

No, it was the fact that it was too heavy and could not carry enough fuel to attain sufficient altitude to reach the ISS. That's why it was always used for research missions and had never been to the ISS.
It was also not on the correct inclination, but even if it had been, the above would have still applied. So even if they knew there was a hole in the wing, there wasn't anything they could have done.

It's the same with these satellites that are falling. They are too heavy for the amount of fuel they may carry, to escape from Earths gravity.
All of them up there will eventually fall back down. There is no other place for them to go.

You probably think it was the Sun's gravitational force as the reason behind the MESSENGER's 6-1/2 year flight plan in the aforementioned article, don't you?

You either do, or you don't.

Why do you think it took so long?

There is no try in the ex-centrifugal force, padwan.

What's an ex-centrifugal force?

[keehah]

All of them up there will eventually fall back down. There is no other place for them to go.

Not necessarily true. Your average satellite has a better probability of being raptured than any particular terrestrial Christian IMO.

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[Horn]

Its all about cost return in my estimation, the more recent designs having more challenging life spans & loaded with a less than spectacular outdated payloads.

Not sure on these particular satellite's though, they could just fall to recent incursions into the Oort cloud?

[Joe King]

Its all about cost return in my estimation, the more recent designs having more challenging life spans & loaded with a less than spectacular outdated payloads.

Well, yea. It costs a lot of "money" to do what you were asking about. That's why they lack fuel sufficient for "ejection", as you put it in your question.

[Horn]

I can think of many other places for them to go, even if when falling they were directed towards Joe's house.

Home to the perpetual magnetic & magical motion machine of the moon possibly?

[Joe King]

How you gonna get 'em to the Moon if there's not enough fuel to get any more altitude than they already have? lol

[ximmy]

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[keehah]

400-Metre Asteroid Flyby Due In Early November
Mark Dunphy Irish Weather Online
Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:17 CDT

A 1300-foot-wide (400 metres) asteroid, which is more than one and a half times the length of a soccer pitch, will pass within 0.85 lunar distances of the Earth on November 8/9, 2011.

Discovered on December 28, 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program near Tucson, Arizona, 2005 YU55 is believed to be a very dark, nearly spherical object.

According to NASA's Near Earth Object Program: "Although classified as a potentially hazardous object, 2005 YU55 poses no threat of an Earth collision over at least the next 100 years. However, this will be the closest approach to date by an object this large that we know about in advance and an event of this type [is not currently predicted to] happen again until 2028 when asteroid (153814) 2001 WN5 will pass to within 0.6 lunar distances." ...

[Horn]

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[Joe King]

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If that's what you want the answer to be, then you got it Ximmy.


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