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Millennium Space in an experiment de-orbited a satellite in eight months. Tethers’ tape creates additional surface area that interacts with the Earth’s atmosphere to create drag, which draws satellites back to Earth faster. The tape is deployed when a satellite is ready to de-orbit.


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