@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
Post #4246606
2026-07-30 16:30 UTC
Next, they spend a bunch of time saying they totally need a bond waiver. Please ignore all the stuff we said about how much money we're making! We shouldn't have to pay!
And then they go into specifics of saying that @space_environmentalism@mastodon.social "mischaracterized" the purpose of a bond: it's not actually to make companies pay for cleanup, it's to avoid over-asking for orbits. Well... they might have a point there, the FCC certainly doesn't give a shit about cleaning anything up.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 16:33
They make it pretty clear that they are in fact over-asking and also don't intend to actually launch 20,000 satellites in 5 years. So... I guess that's good. But also fucking annoying. Oh no here's the astronomy section. I'm sure this will be great.