[ge96]

> 48 hours after payload separation, long after its responsibilities for the launch had ended

This is funny, the way things are just discarded in space, not our problem anymore vs. deorbit

[panzagl]

I think this is more that the offending satellite was at that point the responsibility of the satellite operator, not the launch operator.

[NitpickLawyer]

I think they are saying "this is not on us, this is on the sat operator". Which may or may not be true, who knows.

[butvacuum]

unless the sat operator is sueing for a refund because they were put in the wrong orbit... its the sat operator.

[IncreasePosts]

If you get hit by a car 5 minutes after you get let off at a bus stop it isn't the bus drivers fault.

[ge96]

Yeah while I didn't directly mention it, I'm referring to stages being discarded in space by a specific party

[thesmtsolver2]

Nah, in this case the driver is the person who gets off and goes and bumps into another person.