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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by dylan604 on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:28PM (#26439826)
Great, so they're essentially littering. I hope the Space Force Police pull them over to issue a citation. At least, this will burn up in the atmo rather than in a water system, or do they turn themselves into microparticles ultimately landing in the oceans? They really are litter
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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by bagels on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:36PM (#26439933)
It's low orbit ~400km, the lifetime of these things is measured in weeks or months.
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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by jerf on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:38PM (#26439957)
And the Earth picks up about 40,000 tons of space dust per year.

We've got a lot of work to do before our space "littering" can even dream of matching that level... and that's just a coincidental level that nature happens to have, not some sort of threshold for "real harm", which I'd guess to be multiple orders of magnitude higher.

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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by dylan604 on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:38PM (#26439959)
So do McDonalds wrappers is my point.
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