US imposes $150,000 fine on Dish Network for space debris

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• poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  $150k, that’ll teach 'em!

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  • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t really get why they got fined when they did the best they could. The satellite was launched 20 years before the law was in effect. It’s not like they knew that in 20 years they would need x amount of fuel (though to be fair, it probably would have been about 150k in extra cost back then)

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not like they knew that in 20 years they would need x amount of fuel

      Do you think they’re the only ones who launched satellites 20 years ago? They absolutely knew howuch fuel they needed and how to properly deorbit without leaving hunks of metal orbiting the earth forever.

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  • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah! They definitely will learn when they have to pay less than a percent of their total revenue in 2022!

    /s

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh no, how will Dish Network ever financially recover from such a consequential fine!?

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• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What a fucking joke.

  How about corporate fines start at a year of just the CEO’s compensation. How about that? That would be orders of magnitude higher than this.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wonder if the folks of DISH, TX are still happy about the deal they made.

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  • slumberlust@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably, the 150k fine is way cheaper than retrieving it!

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  • paul@techy.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • DoomBot5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For sure, worst case some peons lost their bonus or something. Nothing the execs care about.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      $150k is literally less than an error bar on a line item at a satellite launch company.

      Hell they probably operate in Texas or some other state which hates women, in which case $150k is just a female employee getting pregnant and you kicking her out on the curb for a year like Jesus said a good conservative should.

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• BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  stock tumbles down like a burning fireball of shit

  …I’m kinda wondering where bottom is on this. /biz/ on 4chan have been mentioning it as a potential meme stock to join GameStop and Bed Bath and Beyond.

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