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by CaptArmchair 829 days ago
If de-orbiting is your concern, then I would suggest taking a step back and considering the impact on our atmosphere of increasing the number of launches.

This isn't a theoretical question. There's growing awareness among researchers that there's a need to research how the gasses and particles produced by rocket launches at scale could have an impact on the atmosphere.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2023/rocket-polluti...

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Scrolling on that link doesn’t work on FF, Safari or Brave on iOS.
I have JS disabled so I can scroll, but the page is long and blank. There's some text if I view source at least.
Are you scrolling up? That caught me out for a moment.
Thanks for the link. Nice use of web tech to illustrate an issue.