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   Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 05:41:43 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

   • planet4589 (Jonathan McDowell)

   Wow, I missed this... apparently a couple weeks ago a piece of (probably) the ISS crashed through someone's house in Florida?! And then they asked @planet4589 for help via twitter because they couldn't get NASA to respond to them?!! WOW.

   https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/02/space-trash-florida-home

   Space law is going to be very "interesting" in the next couple years as exponentially increasing re-entries cause more damage/casualties on the ground...

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     Simon | Síomón (simonas@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 05:41:43 JST Simon | Síomón

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     • planet4589 (Jonathan McDowell)

     @sundogplanets @planet4589 I don’t know the answer … what happens when/if debris falls off an aircraft and damages private property? Is there a current law governing this?

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 05:41:47 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     • Simon | Síomón

     @Simonas That's pretty different than from orbit. From orbit is governed by the Outer Space Treaty, which is way weirder...

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