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SpaceX preparing for third rideshare launch with dozens of small satellites

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Prospective customers buying directly through SpaceX can currently pay just $1 million to launch up to 200 kg (440 lb) to sun-synchronous low Earth orbit (LEO). Fairing recovery north of Cuba ~606km downrange. Let's do this! Planet (x11!) pic.twitter.com/OxKp38TzWG — Will Marshall (@Will4Planet) January 7, 2022.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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It’s still unknown how much other wealthy nations, such as the US and Japan, will contribute. Moreover, while an eventual treaty would be likely to include a cap-and-trade system, under which the world’s bigger polluters would buy allowances from cleaner corporations or utilities, it is unclear how—or even if—it would work.