Reply to post: Re: Orbital velocities

Garbage collection – in SPAAACE: Net snaffles junk in first step to clean up Earth's orbiting litter

jelabarre59

Re: Orbital velocities

Requiring space operators to build end of life deorbit procedures into all objects being launched, include booster stages is going to be helpful.

The problem is there's a lot of small bits out there. The bigger pieces like satellites are easy enough to spot, it's the tiny debris, like trying to avoid a USB stick on the highway while you're driving at highway speeds.

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