Treaties meant to ensure sustainability in space don’t currently regulate private companies, and not every country has signed on to an agreement for sustainable space exploration.
Starlink satellites deorbit on their own. What else is SpaceX leaving in orbit? (Serious question, maybe there are small components the launch systems lose?)
You can filter here to show the SpaceX group, which is a whole bunch of Falcon 2nd stages. It isn’t like anyone else puts effort in to deorbiting their 2nd stages, SpaceX just launches the most.
They also dump Dragon 2 trunks and used to dump some Starlink deployment hardware (which I think is now attached to the 2nd stages), but those two examples are in such low orbit that they don’t last long.
Preface with, didn’t read the article. Elon Musk could do his part, but won’t/can’t!
Starlink satellites deorbit on their own. What else is SpaceX leaving in orbit? (Serious question, maybe there are small components the launch systems lose?)
You can filter here to show the SpaceX group, which is a whole bunch of Falcon 2nd stages. It isn’t like anyone else puts effort in to deorbiting their 2nd stages, SpaceX just launches the most.
https://sky.rogue.space/
They also dump Dragon 2 trunks and used to dump some Starlink deployment hardware (which I think is now attached to the 2nd stages), but those two examples are in such low orbit that they don’t last long.
Thanks for doing the leg work, I wasn’t sure where to start and figured I’d end up down a rabbit hole…too easily distracted!