I agree that the debris problem is one of those commons-type issues that’ll cost way more to fix than if we’d prevented it in the first place. However, for sta

I agree that the debris problem is one of those commons-type issues that’ll cost way more to fix than if we’d prevented it in the first place. However, for starlink specifically aren’t the satellites all low enough to deorbit and burn up automatically within 5 years? This should eliminate the orbital debris problem for this constellation specifically. A different problem is what happens with all the burnt up aluminum and other metals in the high atmosphere. I saw a post mentioning this once recently but also don’t know much about the scale or effects of this problem.