The term "graveyard orbit" refers to a region at an even higher altitude in the sky where old space debris is moved so that ...

and in geosynchronous orbit — where some of the most advanced and expensive satellites operate — they expend the last of their fuel moving to a so-called graveyard orbit, an outer orbit where ...

When a satellite is near end of life, the last bit of fuel is used to push it into graveyard orbit. This doesn’t always work, however, and when the light is just right, a chemical reaction makes ...

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

But it will likely aim to burn up over a remote area of the ocean — as is common for second-stage rockets, which either blaze back to Earth or are maneuvered into a “graveyard orbit.” ...

The spacecraft, also developed by SAST, docked with a defunct Beidou navigation satellite and towed it to a graveyard orbit above the geostationary belt, which is 35,786 kilometers above the equator.