fossilesque to AstronomyEnglish · 11 months agoThe Soviet spacecraft cemetery in the Pacificwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foospace@kbin.social
arrow-up125arrow-down1external-linkThe Soviet spacecraft cemetery in the Pacificwww.bbc.comfossilesque to AstronomyEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square2fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foospace@kbin.social
minus-squaresj_zero@lotide.fbxl.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoMakes a lot of sense. Space junk will pile up if you leave it up there, so you want it to come back to earth, but you can’t drop that stuff on land for various reasons, so the most uninhabited part of earth is a good choice to drop this stuff down.
Makes a lot of sense. Space junk will pile up if you leave it up there, so you want it to come back to earth, but you can’t drop that stuff on land for various reasons, so the most uninhabited part of earth is a good choice to drop this stuff down.