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Amid Crowded Skies, Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk (www.propublica.org)
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The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit within 25 years of launch.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe a sane country will pick up the slack and forcibly deorbit all the junk. That includes anything up there Musk-related.

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The amount energy that would take is truly unfathomable

[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Just tell other billionaires that each one has someone from Sarajevo inside and they'll pay to shoot them down.