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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmazon's Project Kuiper books up to 83 rockets to launch its internet-beaming satellites.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/5/23010245/amazon-project-kuiper-megaconstellation-arianespace-ula-blue-origin?fbclid=IwAR3ex22eI4OWZxVD4TiUyotG1U9MF2nAf9xxHQLy-H9W4DsdPNr6Z9jKpvk
Aristus
(66,467 posts)Chainfire
(17,644 posts)they should be required to have a bonded plan on what to do with them when they are no longer useful. I would suggest the same for governments. We have trashed the earth and now we are making a junkyard of our near space. After all, we have to leave room for the Jewish space lasers.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)We need to get this fixed. It's literally insane to launch tens of thousands of satellites without a practical way to clean up the dead ones.
Disaffected
(4,569 posts)are programmed to self-deorbit when they reach their life expectancy or become defective. Even if the self-deorbit feature fails, they are in a sufficiently low orbit that they will necessarily deorbit within a few years due to atmospheric drag.
Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Chainfire
(17,644 posts)out of the program and then ask the taxpayers to pay to clean up their mess. We have seen it all before.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Emile
(22,947 posts)will end up paying?
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)workers!
Chainfire
(17,644 posts)Lucid Dreamer
(584 posts)Artificial Orbiting Albedo Shield.
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