For the first time, a company is being fined for not properly ‘cleaning up’ waste in space. Communications company DISH should have ensured that the satellite EchoStar-7 would fly to another location near Earth at the end of its life, serving as a kind of ‘space graveyard’, but that did not happen. As a result, the retired satellite continues to pose a danger to other satellites.
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First ever fine for abandoning ‘space debris’ for company that did not fly defunct satellite to ‘space graveyard’
