Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of orbiting junk

Re:Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of or... by panick21_ on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:29PM (#32861363)

For the most part they already do what you suggest.

Companies are required to have plans for save disposal. The problem is currently if you have a total failure, you are not required to pay for removal. This could be added as a law and then it would just be part of the insurance package.

Also, most actual space junk in LEO are government sats or parts of rockets that launched government sats.

Commercial stuff is mostly in GEO and there you also have a disposal problem but its quite a different problem then LEO.

> Space companies pay a fee per launch. Amount gets pooled.

This seems to be a very bad approach. Amount of launch does not have much to do with how much debris exists.

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Re:Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of or... by LightG on Friday September 16, 2022 @04:49PM (#32871846)

Think of it as the equivalent of insurance. Extrapolate.

I'm just saying. Sure, current launches are not responsible, but pay to play, man. And I don't mean make launching unprofitable, but play your part.

Commercialize the clean up. I don't know, NASA drafts a contract that soace players bid for, funded by launches. I dont know, but just do it.

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