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NASA creates space sustainability division to consolidate orbital debris activities (spacenews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I am calling them as a whole orbital debris

Ah, the term "orbital debris" refers to "defunct human-made objects in orbit which no longer serve a useful function". Operational satellites do not fall into this category.

As for aluminum oxide pollution in the stratosphere, that is a serious issue which SpaceX needs to address. However, I'm not sure that stratospheric pollution would fall under the jurisdiction of NASA's new orbital debris division.