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Virgin Orbit launches 10 satellites to orbit in landmark test flight
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aftabh
5y ago
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usernamebias
5y ago
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Man... we're about to have a metric sh*t ton of stuff in orbit ready to become debris at any time.
Rebelgecko
5y ago
Fortunately all this stuff is pretty low (not just "LEO", but near the bottom of LEO). It'll mostly burn up on its own in a few years
someperson
5y ago
Earlier discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25815229
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