The last entry on his site was a two-day-old tweet that read "1 month till my first race of 2013.. Can't wait to burn it up!"
There will be a self-ignition of the UDMH and if it does not all burn up, it will be so dispersed there will not be a critical concentration.
The federal government could set a good example by buying, in advance, some of the 1.6 billion barrels of oil it will burn up over the next decade.
Astrium's plan to tackle defunct satellites is to use an unmanned chase spacecraft to get in range, fire a barbed harpoon into the body of the rogue hardware and then use a smaller propulsion unit attached to a tether to tow it back towards the atmosphere where it will burn up safely on re-entry.
Its path will put it spectacularly close to the Sun in November and if it does not burn up entirely, could be the "comet of the century".
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The vehicle will take this waste into a controlled burn-up over the Pacific Ocean when it leaves the station sometime from June onwards.
After all, NTSB chair, Deborah Hersman noted that the FAA approved the 787 for flight because Boeing convinced it the lithium-ion battery would only burn up once every 10 million flight hours.
The satellite is likely to burn up during reentry, but there's concern that it could contain hydrazine fuel, which may be hazardous to people on the ground.
It is scheduled to stay at the ISS until August, after which it will undock and take station rubbish into a controlled burn-up over the Pacific Ocean.
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Moscow offered some reassurance on Friday when it said that "most of the station's elements" would burn up in the atmosphere.
"Anhydrous ammonia will burn but it is unusual for it to detonate, whereas ammonium nitrate has a track record of blowing up, " he told the BBC World Service.
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"I don't think he really thought this through, and it ended up where he had to do something that was pretty wacky, which was burn down his house, " said Rubin.
"Anhydrous ammonia will burn but it is unusual for it to detonate, whereas ammonium nitrate has a track record of blowing up, " explained Prof Andrea Sella, a chemist at University College London.
Iridium's satellites have not been rerouted to burn up in the atmosphere as expected, so early adopters still are using the service, though it is increasingly spotty.
Indeed, Arizona Clean Fuels, an organization that bills itself as committed to building newer and better refineries that burn gasoline more cleanly, has been through the wringer for a decade as it's tried to get a refinery up in the Yuma area.
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