Plan mooted to stop debris smacking around, or worse – taking out your space broadband
The US Federal Communications Commission wants to shrink a current requirement for space operators to pull their equipment from low Earth orbit from within 25 years to just five years, according to new rules published yesterday.] space station operators planning to dispose of their units through uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere to complete it as soon as"practicable", and no more than five years following the end of mission.
The idea is to tackle a growing amount of space junk that could not only make future launches more dangerous, but which poses a risk to other satellites and spacecraft, and in some instances, when pieces of debris fall back to Earth, potentially poses a risk to people and property on the ground.There are more than 4,800 satellites currently operating in orbit as of the end of [2021], and the vast majority of those are commercial satellites operating at altitudes below 2,000 km...
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