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by trothamel 1595 days ago
That's wrong. There were four missions that were deployed to apogees above 300 km, but most are deployed to 250km and below. That means that satellites that fail tend to burn up quite quickly, in a few years.

Here's a chart of deployment apogee and perigee.

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1491256299002155012/ph...