Disposal
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After the planned operations of SpIRIT, and any additional operations which are added during the mission lifetime, approximately 2 years after launch, SpIRIT will be disposed of.
The disposal phase will use the Neumann Thruster to accelerate the orbital decay and eventual atmospheric burn-up
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