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Several companies have been developing deorbit add-on modules, and I hope this requirement spurs on this growing industry. I would love it if it became the norm that satellites have a passive failsafe deorbit system that activates at after a set amount of time or if ground communications fail for a set duration.

https://www.nasa.gov/smallsat-institute/sst-soa/deorbit-syst...




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