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  • Assalam-o-a'laikum. Are man made satellites not in perpetual motion?

    I've been conceptualizing perpetual motion machines for some time- like 3 months. I read all the IT'S IMPOSSIBLE stuff. However it just hit me: How come nobody mentions man made satellites. They use solar power but i think it is used for operations like transmitting/ recieving.. I personally have not seen any rockets on these things for altitude adjustment.

    Possible answer: These stellites do/ are made to fall back to earth after some time. Must be the same about the debre from rockets.

    Still is perpetual motion not a possibility for these satellites?

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