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The Otero family is asking NASA to pay $ 80,000 in damages including emotional distress, non-insured property damage loss, business interruption damages and the cost of assistance from third parties.
The resolution of the claim — the first of its kind — will set a precedent for how such cases are handled in the future.
NASA has six months to respond to the family’s claims.
Over 300 metric tons of defunct satellites, used rocket stages, objects thrown out of the space station and various collision fragments enter Earth ’s atmosphere every year.
FAA estimates that a piece of debris could injure or kill someone every two years if plans to deploy large satellite mega-constellations are completed.
SpaceX Starlink, OneWeb, Amazon Project Kuiper and Chinese ventures G60 and GuoWang have similar visions of thousands to tens of thousands of satellites.
In addition to that, space sustainability experts track about 35,670 fragments of debris down to the size of 10 centimeters . Overall, more than 12,400 metric ton of stuff hurtles in Earth ’s orbits..
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