Dish Network wen katch da first time eva US fine fo’ space junk 📡💸🚀
😮🌎 Da Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wen hit Dish Network wit one $150,000 (£125,000) fine cause dem buggahs nevah move their old satellite far enough away from the oddas dat still stay workin’. Dish Network admitted dat they messed up wit their EchoStar-7 satellite and agreed foa follow FCC’s compliance plan.
📡👍 Dis ‘space junk’, as we call um, is made up of bits of tech stuffs dat stay orbiting Earth but no moa use already. And get chance fo crash into oddas.
Officially dis kine stuff called ‘space debris’, and includes tings like old satellites an parts of spacecraft. The FCC said that Dish’s satellite was posing potential risk to other satellites orbiting the Earth at its current altitude.
Dis EchoStar-7 – which was first launched in 2002 – had been chilling geostationary orbit stylez, which starts at 22,000 miles (36,000km) above the Earth’s surface. Dish was supposed to move the satellite 186 miles further from Earth 🌍 but by da end of its life in 2022 had moved it only 76 miles after it ran outta fuel.
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Dish Network Faced With First-Ever US Fine for Space Debris
The US Government Imposes a Fine on a Company for Leaving Space Debris 🚀💸 BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountHomeNewsSportReelWorklifeTravelFutureMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportReelWorklifeTravelFutureCultureMusicTVWeatherSoundsClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeWar in UkraineClimateVideoWorldUS & CanadaUKBusinessTechScienceMoreEntertainment & ArtsHealthIn PicturesBBC VerifyWorld News TVNewsbeatTechUS issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish NetworkPublished1 day agocommentsCommentsShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Nasa JSCBy Imran Rahman-JonesTechnology reporter.
Here’s the scoop: the US government has imposed a penalty on a company for the first time ever because they left all sorts of debris floating around up there in space.😮🌎 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) slapped Dish Network with an $150,000 (£125,000) fine because these guys didn’t move their old satellite far enough away from others that are still operational.
Dish Network admitted that they made mistakes with their EchoStar-7 satellite and agreed to follow FCC’s compliance plan.📡👍 This ‘space junk’, as it is referred to, consists of pieces of technological equipment orbiting Earth but no longer functional.
And there’s potential it could collide with other objects.This kind of stuff is officially known as ‘space debris’, which includes things like old satellites and parts from spacecrafts.
The FCC stated that Dish’s satellite was posing potential risk at its current altitude towards other satellites orbiting Earth This EchoStar-7 – which was initially launched in 2002 – had been stationed geostationary stylez at 22,000 miles (36,000km) above Earth’s surface.
