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US government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network::Dish to pay $150,000 for failing to properly dispose of satellite and violating the FCC’s anti-space debris rule
How close are we talking?
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-collision-alerts-on-the-rise
According to this article, Starlink satellites are involved in over 1,600 close encounters (within 1 kilometer or 0.6 miles) each week.
Hot damn, that is close