alt Hacker News> 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
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NitpickLawyer • today at 2:09 PM
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.
IncreasePosts • today at 3:39 PM
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.
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I think this is more that the offending satellite was at that point the responsibility of the satellite operator, not the launch operator.