In the circles I hang out and work with (television/radio distribution geosats), we call it being "retired", "retired from service" or "placed in a graveyard orbit" since it's still in orbit but not a useful one for the TV satellite's purpose. I would also consider GOES geostationary sats to be retired or in a graveyard orbit if they burn it 300km or whatever calculated distance further away from the clarke belt such that it's not longer serving its purpose. Robert ________________________________ From: Jonathan McDowell <planet4589@gmail.com> To: Chris Jones <clj@panix.com> Cc: "seesat-l@satobs.org" <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 5:52 PM Subject: Re: GOES-12 deorbit? I can live with that. "graveyarded" could be applied in LEO as well, doesn't have to be restricted to GEO sats. I was thinking about 'rusticated', but it has a temporary connotation that doesn't apply. On 19 August 2013 19:40, Chris Jones <clj@panix.com> wrote: > On 8/19/2013 5:41 PM, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > I doubt it was a typo - I've seen 'deorbit' used in this sense more and > > more over the past 10 years - a very unfortunate re-appropriation > > of what was once a well-defined technical term. I agree that 're-orbit' > is > > preferable, although still ugly. Perhaps 'de-station' might be better? > > (given that people are unwilling to type something fuller like 'send to > a > > retirement orbit') > > > > On 19 August 2013 17:35, Brian Weeden <brian.weeden@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> The appropriate (but still confusing) term is "re-orbit". Perhaps it > was a > >> typo. > > I don't like "re-orbit" (with or without the hyphen) for the same reason > I don't like "deorbit": the satellite is neither reentering or leaving > orbit, so the terms are incorrect. "de-station" is better. If we don't > mind verbing another word, perhaps "graveyarding" (the gerund form of > the verb "to graveyard") would do. > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130819/baa38c40/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130819/6e003b06/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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