Cleaning up someone elses space trash has the same problem that cleaning up someone elses earth trash, the lesson is never learned and it creates a habit of not being responsible for your own garbage.
Ruined orbits should be made available essentially for free, and cleaning up that orbit would provide the entity that bought it with a very valuable resource they could then sell.
Of course, this plan requires cooperation between all nations and entities who have the ability to launch objects into orbit. We have precedent in RF, the sea, and in airspace regulation. To an extent.
LEO satellites like starlink will lose their orbit after a few weeks of not maintaining it.
Yea. Hard to figure out.
zeristor•7mo ago