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Have to destroy the rockets that are used to maintain them then and just wait.
They aren't maintained. They're a constellation of small satellites in LEO like starlink that just go up and eventually come down.
If they're too far up latency would be too high
No one is repairing any of these starlink type dishes.
Wasn't it recently proven that the metals introduced into the upper atmosphere by satellites burning up depletes ozone? Its not a problem yet but maintaining constellations on the scale of cumulative several gigawatts of data centre would leave several tons of satellite burning up every single day. CFC Ozone hole is gonna look like a cloudy day in comparison.
I don't think anything was proven yet, but something came out saying it warranted more studying?
Satellites might need to be redesigned around it in the future and more studies should be done.
Pastry in spaaace! Still, eventually they will stop working.
If they stop working they will just de-orbit it early, or if they can't cause it's really broken, they'll just wait the ~5-10 years to come down on it's own.