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ESA rejects claims it deliberately failed to de-orbit Envisat

Submit on Friday, October 12th, 2012 22:54

Rejecting claims made earlier by a member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), ESA said it never had any option to de-orbit its Envisat spacecraft within 25 years in accordance with current guidelines (which didn’t exist at the time Envisat was launched).
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