No harm, no foul. I made large post detailing the problems with this delivery system but people still keep posting about it. It is possible to do, you just have to accelerate the rod into orbit then decelerate it almost to a complete stop if you want a steep trajectory onto the target. It is probably the most expensive way to put a kilogram of mass onto target I can think of. The worst part is the misconception that a satellite can release something and it will fall towards the Earth. It will fall on exactly the same trajectory as the satellite that released it.
No harm, no foul. I made large post detailing the problems with this delivery system but people still keep posting about it. It is possible to do, you just have to accelerate the rod into orbit then decelerate it almost to a complete stop if you want a steep trajectory onto the target. It is probably the most expensive way to put a kilogram of mass onto target I can think of. The worst part is the misconception that a satellite can release something and it will fall towards the Earth. It will fall on exactly the same trajectory as the satellite that released it.