11 Jul
2001
11 Jul
'01
2:31 a.m.
There is lots of junk up there. Schemes to de-orbit satellites at the end of their useful life have been put forward but they always fail on the
At 12:44 AM 7/11/01 -0400, Jim Windle wrote: liability issue. Apparently if a satellite falls out of orbit it is an "act of god" and the owner/insurer is not responsible for damages, but if the satellite is deliberately de-orbitted the owner/insurer is on the hook. No one, More importantly: you can't get sued if your space debris trashes someone else's mission. So why bother?