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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by SonicScrub on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:40AM (#28525544)
1) Be Space debris company

2) Setup shadow satellite corporation

3) Satellite corp launches satellite to valuable orbit, and intentionally separates into 2-3 easily caught pieces. "Oops! Our satellite failed"

4) space debris company cleans up the orbit quickly and easily, receives bounty from government agency

5) Profit

A little far-fetched maybe, but there's a good sci-fi short story wrapped up in there.

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by spockz on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:02AM (#28525916)
Obviously the fix for this is to let the one that wants to have the satellite in that orbit pay for the cleaning of that orbit instead of some government.
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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by SonicScrub on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:06AM (#28525972)
I should still pre-emptively trash some valuable Sun-Synchronous orbits before anyone else launches. Incentive is still there!
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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by Zanni on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:55PM (#28527531)
Well, if we're imagining dystopian science-fiction stories in this vein, let's say that the salvage company automates their cleanup with an AI approximately as sophisticated as YouTube. Now every satellite launch is subject to malicious "take down" requests from competitors along with the whimsies of the algorithm.
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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by dotancohen on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:32AM (#28526361)
6) Shadow satellite corporation contracted to destroy Beidu navigation system.
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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by AtlasBarfed on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:22PM (#28534470)
Someone is coding themselves a minivan I see.
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