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Yup, spacex stuff is all LEO. Without input it all crashes into the atmosphere in a few years (3 I believe)
Would spacex be liable if one of their satellites hits your car or house?
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I think the correct comparison is losing one launch. Most companies could handle that fine. That's what insurance is for.
Huh, I've never thought about insurance for stuff like this. Do you think this was covered?
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Yup, spacex stuff is all LEO. Without input it all crashes into the atmosphere in a few years (3 I believe)
Would spacex be liable if one of their satellites hits your car or house?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, spacex stuff is all LEO. Without input it all crashes into the atmosphere in a few years (3 I believe)
Would spacex be liable if one of their satellites hits your car or house?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, spacex stuff is all LEO. Without input it all crashes into the atmosphere in a few years (3 I believe)
Would spacex be liable if one of their satellites hits your car or house?
40 sats makes up about 2% of the current fleet - so a rounding error in cost and time. The important part of this news is how those 40 sats deorbit and leave no junk either in orbit or on earth.
Would you write it off as a rounding error?
Who's gonna clean after SpaceX' now? It's amazing that I'll get a $1,000 fine if I drop a small piece of garbage here in Irvine, but SpaceX can go away polluting the sky indefinitely without any responsibilities!
SpaceX is using their satellites to accomplish useful things for a lot of stakeholders. They also get special permission to allow their satellites to descend to the earth at EOL. These satellites stop orbiting quite quickly after they're no longer functional - they don't orbit indefinitely. Your litter in comparison would be a totally different kind of problem, and evidently, it is a problem at human scale. That's wh…
Who's gonna clean after SpaceX' now? It's amazing that I'll get a $1,000 fine if I drop a small piece of garbage here in Irvine, but SpaceX can go away polluting the sky indefinitely without any responsibilities!
The constellation is self cleaning to some large degree because of their relatively low orbits. Satellites that die on final orbit have ~5 years before they've reentered on their own, and before they orbit raise right after launch, it can be as low as a couple weeks. These orbits were an intentional choice by SpaceX. One of intentional effects benefits is to not contribute to space junk concerns.