https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/24/directv_shifting_satellite/

AT&T’s satellite telly service DirecTV will push one of its birds beyond its geostationary orbit – before it has a chance to explode into a million pieces.

The broadcaster fears the batteries on board its Boeing-built Spaceway-1 satellite, which has been aloft since 2005, may detonate, spewing debris into the Clarke Orbit – named after the sci-fi super-author Arthur – and destroying other craft.