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Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Both of you are right. Space junk is an issue (Kessler syndrome), but that's for orbits which won't degrade by themselves, starlink satellites are supposed to be low enough that at time of crash they should mostly crash towards the earth and burn in the atmosphere.