In-depth reporting on how disposing of old satellites by burning them up in the atmosphere is becoming a serious problem
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-space-orbit-satellites-pollution/
Cool article design, many links to papers. And the second part is on how the industry responds to this very real threat.
One such reaction is:
" “I don’t think this data, this analysis is concrete, robust, or has been done enough to be definitive yet,” said Chris Jones, vice president of network operations at Iridium, a satellite communication services provider."
Yeah, right...
the article also states that the industry keeps it a secret what in detail and how much of it they put in their spacecrafts, ie into the atmosphere.
And then one industry speaker has the audacity to declare loftily, the analyses on harm weren't enough...
Another quagmire... like the fossil mire . And the majority of it occurring in the USA whose regulation authorities ideologically weren't up to the task even before Trumler and his gang of criminals were elected by US citizens... a shithole country if ever there was one.