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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul" data-source="post: 2771548" data-attributes="member: 210568">Cost!It would cost a heck of a lot more to recover the satellites than you would get in scrap metal.  Although nobody owns any celestial object the people who made and launched the satellites still own them and may well want you to pay them for their loss of use of their functionning satellites.The reason non-functioning satellites are moved to a "graveyard orbit" or moved to burn up in the atmosphere is becaue the cost of recovering them is prohibitively high.</blockquote>