What the satellite servicing economy can borrow from carbon credits
In January 2026 alone, the Federal Communications Commission authorized 15,000 Starlink Gen2 satellites. Starcloud has filed for 88,000 orbital data center satellites. SpaceX has filed for 1 million. There is no atmospheric accounting framework requiring any of these operators to disclose or offset the consequences of their reentries. Recent literature…
bubmagJune 18, 2026