There should be no private space company. Space should be governed by people amd their govt not fucking capitalist scums
Ding ding ding
This is the right answer. Access to space should be government only as companies will guaranteed fuck it up
Not to mention all the junk that private US companies are launching into orbit without being asked.
That’s kind of captured by their effect during reentry. I’m assuming you’re focusing more on things like light pollution?
Also it creates space junk that can damage or destroy other satellites.
Right now, space is an unmanaged commons. That never works out.
Meanwhile commercial shipping in international waters uses the worst fuels on the planet and has basically zero regulation. Emitting thousands of times the pollutants every day, but that’s not flashy and doesn’t involve SpaceX which is guaranteed instant clickbait.
ok, but rockets burn hydrogen and make water, whatever else is 0.000001% of commercial air travel or sea shipping.
