• HeiligerBimBam
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    1 month ago

    Not to mention all the junk that private US companies are launching into orbit without being asked.

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      1 month ago

      That’s kind of captured by their effect during reentry. I’m assuming you’re focusing more on things like light pollution?

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        28 days ago

        Also it creates space junk that can damage or destroy other satellites.

        Right now, space is an unmanaged commons. That never works out.