> The FCC is the relevant regulator. Starlinks are designed to burn up completely[1].
> We've come a long way since the days of nuclear reactor re-entry[2] oopsies.
Kosmos 954 was a Soviet satellite. The FCC only has jurisdiction over private US satellites. I'm not sure why you are connecting them. If China/India/Russia/etc want to risk another "nuclear reactor re-entry oopsie", that is completely out of the FCC's hands. It would probably even be out of the FCC's hands if some other US government agency (NASA or DOD or DOE) wanted to risk it.
Yes, that was unrelated to the FCC. It was just something that popped into my mind as an example of something that was orders of magnitudes more problematic than a starlink re-entry.
> We've come a long way since the days of nuclear reactor re-entry[2] oopsies.
Kosmos 954 was a Soviet satellite. The FCC only has jurisdiction over private US satellites. I'm not sure why you are connecting them. If China/India/Russia/etc want to risk another "nuclear reactor re-entry oopsie", that is completely out of the FCC's hands. It would probably even be out of the FCC's hands if some other US government agency (NASA or DOD or DOE) wanted to risk it.