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Virgin Orbit launches 10 satellites to orbit in landmark test flight(space.com)

29 points by aftabh 5 years ago | 3 comments

someperson 5 years ago |

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25815229

usernamebias 5 years ago |

Man... we're about to have a metric sh*t ton of stuff in orbit ready to become debris at any time.

Rebelgecko 5 years ago | |

Fortunately all this stuff is pretty low (not just "LEO", but near the bottom of LEO). It'll mostly burn up on its own in a few years