Companies should be fined based on how long an object is cluttering space. Billed monthly. One time fees hardly seem appropriate.
Fines aren’t actually sufficient. It should be criminal charges to past and current executives for ruining our safe orbital space, and if you are are doomer, for contributing to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome .
Basically force the people who ultimately are responsible for cost saving measures to have skin in the game.
This actually applies to everything that has long lasting consequences. Pumping poison in our lakes, rivers and air, making to be trashed devices…
In a recent legal filing, Dish Network decried recent statements and fines levied by the US Government, tersely responding “Aiyeee, you sunk our battleship!”
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Dish was meant to move the satellite 186 miles further from Earth, but at the end of its life in 2022 had moved it only 76 miles after it lost fuel.
Not even half way to where it should have been! I wonder where the calculation for fuel went wrong
