The UN adopts voluntary space debris mitigation guidelines

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1. Story
2. The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space adopted a set of debris mitigation guidelines, subsequently endorsed by the General Assembly, drawing on the technical guidelines issued by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee earlier in the decade. They included the expectation that spacecraft in low Earth orbit be removed within twenty-five years of mission end. They are explicitly voluntary and carry no enforcement mechanism, which is why the operative constraint on operator behaviour eventually came from national licensing instead.
3. Knowledge
4. Orbital debris
5. The FCC five-year post-mission disposal rule
6. The UN adopts voluntary space debris mitigation guidelines
7. Connections
8. Orbital debris
9. The FCC five-year post-mission disposal rule
10. Low Earth orbit broadband constellations
11. Low Earth orbit broadband constellations
12. The Kessler collision cascade
13. The FCC five-year post-mission disposal rule
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21. Orbital debris
22. Low Earth orbit broadband constellations
23. The UN adopts voluntary space debris mitigation guidelines
24. The FCC adopts a five-year post-mission disposal rule
25. Evidence
26. Establishes voluntary, non-binding debris mitigation expectations including removal of low-Earth-orbit spacecraft within twenty-five years of mission end. V55 verification basis: the guidelines were not retrieved in this session; the adoption year and the twenty-five-year expectation are stated from author knowledge.