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Space junk falls towards earth fairly often. When a satellite comes to the end of it's life, its orbit will decay and it will eventually fall to earth. The orbital speed of these objects is quite high though, so when they approach the earths atmosphere they burn up and disintegrate from the heat caused by friction against the atmosphere. The team involved will try to aim for a sparsely populated area or ocean, so any remains will land away from populated areas.

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