A photograph of the latest SpaceX Starship that exploded, sending streaks of flaming debris across the sky. Above and below the photo, the caption reads, "Helping Elon find wasted taxpayer money." Each of the pieces of debris are tagged with different amounts, such as 20 MIL, 12 MIL, 25 MIL, 69 MIL, 45 MIL, 527 MIL, 133 MIL, etc.

#WasteX not #SpaceX

As Skies Fill With Space Junk, Nonprofit Urges US to Pause StarLink Launches Elon Musk’s StarLink has helped bring the internet to hard-to-reach places, but the company’s satellites eventually become dangerous space junk. And the consequences are raining down on us.

As Skies Fill With #SpaceJunk, Nonprofit Urges US to Pause #StarLink Launches

Asking the government to delay launches for environmental review is likely to rile up the companies that want to blast off indiscriminately

#PIRG #space #satellites #lightpollution #WasteX #spacex #internet #environment