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by johnabowen 4796 days ago
Very dense = high ballistic coefficient = longer orbital lifetime

Though I generally agree that CubeSats are relatively safe / low junkyness.

In fact, most (US only maybe?) CubeSats have to demonstrate an orbital lifetime of less than 25 years to get a frequency allocated. (The FCC regulating space debris via frequency allocation is an interesting debate for another thread.)