Graveyard Orbit

♤ It is a orbit where spacecrafts are placed at the end of their operational life.

♤ The purpose of graveyard orbit is to avoid any collision between dead space crafts with currently operational one.

♤ It is a supersychronousorbit , i.e. it lies significantly above synchronous orbit.

♤ ISRO is currently moving its communication satellite INSAT-3E to graveyard orbit.

♤ Communications satellite INSAT-3E has completed its life and gone out of service. It is a third-generation satellite which was launched in September 2003.