Reply to post: Where will the bits go?

Curse of Boeing continues: Now a telly satellite it built may explode, will be pushed up to 500km from geo orbit

RM Mynez-Arefzlash

Where will the bits go?

I appreciate that moving it elsewhere is probably a good idea, but if it explodes won't it throw the bits into all sorts of orbits? Given that a higher orbit needs more energy wouldn't slowing it down to lower orbit be better? The debris would have less energy.

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