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When is someone going to launch something to clean up all the tech demos and space junk?
by cmdialog 4y ago
When is someone going to launch something to clean up all the tech demos and space junk?
- waihtis 4y agowhen a big publicity incident caused by space junk happens
- Grim-444 4y agoI'm pretty sure there's already FCC rules requiring deorbit of satellites within a certain number of years of their mission completion. [Edit] https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-new-5-year-rule-deorbiting-satellites https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-new-5-year-rule-deor...
- throwaway4aday 4y agoIt's in LEO, the atmosphere will bring it down.
- pythonguython 4y agoYep. Part of launching is making a deorbit plan (if possible). That satellite will come down, and they already know when that will happen.