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Starlink’s got company — and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen
Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite mega constellation is just the beginning.
“The Space Force tracks a number of objects and updates the catalog a couple of times a day, and the hope is that people will be able to fend for themselves, based on what is freely being provided by the United States.” After this post was published, Amazon representative Tina Pelkey pointedtoposts from the company regarding its plans to safely deorbit satellites and its support of the ESA Zero Debris Charter, but did not respond to specific questions about handling potential conjunctions. “SpaceX has a lot more experience running a mega constellation than any regulator we can find on Earth,” he says, and they could make proposals on handling conjunction events — “So the burden is not on the world governments to come up with a plan.”
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