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1) Be Space debris company 2) Setup shadow satellite corporation 3) Satellite corp launches satellite to valuable orbit, and intentionally separates into 2-3
by SonicScrub 5y ago
1) Be Space debris company
2) Setup shadow satellite corporation
3) Satellite corp launches satellite to valuable orbit, and intentionally separates into 2-3 easily caught pieces. "Oops! Our satellite failed"
4) space debris company cleans up the orbit quickly and easily, receives bounty from government agency
5) Profit
A little far-fetched maybe, but there's a good sci-fi short story wrapped up in there.
- spockz 5y agoObviously the fix for this is to let the one that wants to have the satellite in that orbit pay for the cleaning of that orbit instead of some government.
- SonicScrub 5y agoI should still pre-emptively trash some valuable Sun-Synchronous orbits before anyone else launches. Incentive is still there!
- dotancohen 5y ago6) Shadow satellite corporation contracted to destroy Beidu navigation system.
- Zanni 5y agoWell, if we're imagining dystopian science-fiction stories in this vein, let's say that the salvage company automates their cleanup with an AI approximately as sophisticated as YouTube. Now every satellite launch is subject to malicious "take down" requests from competitors along with the whimsies of the algorithm.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoSomeone is coding themselves a minivan I see.