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by pclmulqdq 1072 days ago
Many of those de-orbit plans are things like "deploy all the solar panels in the maximal-drag configuration and wait for the thing to burn." That still poses risk to satellites in very low orbits, although they linger for weeks or months rather than years. I wouldn't expect the situation to get a lot better, since despite the reduced time to de-orbit, a lot more satellites are being launched.