| This is just complete nonsense. First of all, its not even remotely junk. These are sophisticated pieces of equipment and they will in almost all cases not be junk. Its standard regulation that all sats deorbit themselves at end of live. And even in the very few cases where the sat fails Starlink sats are low enough orbit they will only be junk for a very small amount of time. > Tesla's revenue in 2 days are roughly the same as the yearly GDP of Tonga. Space X's revenue is 10 times the GDP of Tonga. Completely irrelevant statistics. Why don't you compare it to the Vatican City? Or you the local lemonade stand? Or to Apple? > There will be no real oversight of this billionaire on the loose. Except of course the tons of regulation that Starlink and SpaceX in general have to agree to in order to be allowed to operate. Before you are allowed to launch you need to actually tell the regulator where you are gone deploy, what your end of life policy is. Of course lots of regulation about spectrum and so on. |