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> 48 hours after payload separation, long after its responsibilities for the launch had ended This is funny, the way things are just discarded in space, not ou
by ge96 9mo ago
> 48 hours after payload separation, long after its responsibilities for the launch had ended
This is funny, the way things are just discarded in space, not our problem anymore vs. deorbit
- NitpickLawyer 9mo agoI think they are saying "this is not on us, this is on the sat operator". Which may or may not be true, who knows.
- butvacuum 9mo agounless the sat operator is sueing for a refund because they were put in the wrong orbit... its the sat operator.
- panzagl 9mo agoI think this is more that the offending satellite was at that point the responsibility of the satellite operator, not the launch operator.
- IncreasePosts 9mo agoIf you get hit by a car 5 minutes after you get let off at a bus stop it isn't the bus drivers fault.
- thesmtsolver2 9mo agoNah, in this case the driver is the person who gets off and goes and bumps into another person.
- ge96 9mo agoYeah while I didn't directly mention it, I'm referring to stages being discarded in space by a specific party