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When I was on holiday in a cottage in the deepest Wales countryside for a few days last month I happened to check the AS my phone's internet packets were coming from. Starlink. I must admit I was conflicted.
"Oh don't worry, SpaceX has amazing engineers! They know what they're doing!"Well yes, they're amazing. But they definitely make giant mistakes. Like... you know... dropping hundreds of pounds of debris from a "fully demisable" spacecraft by my house. Whoopsie.
SpaceX, please don't whoopsie us into Kessler Syndrome.
When Space Junk Fell on My Neighbor’s Farm, the Law Had Few Answers for Us
A Saskatchewan farmer’s near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and murky politics of space junkScientific American
