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China applies to put 200,000 satellites in space after calling Starlink a crash risk (archive.ph)

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yay for even more trash in the fucking sky.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

I mean what are we gonna do? stand up to billion person nations and billionaire owned corpos? lol

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

that's actually why starlink uses very low orbits ... in case they fail, they de-orbit automatically within 5 years due to atmospheric friction, so the orbit is "self-cleaning"