"We will use the tremendous capabilities of this ion propulsion system to climb out of orbit around Vesta, travel for almost another three years through the asteroid belt to dwarf planet Ceres and then go into orbit around Ceres and undertake the same kind of measurements there that we'll be doing at Vesta.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

Active removal would see new spacecraft launched specifically to take other, redundant satellites out of orbit.

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But be careful--one technical glitch and this satellite imagery stock could fall out of orbit.

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By then, however, the world of technology had turned a few times, and the DTN was wobbling out of orbit.

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