'Starwashing': How space companies use the greenwashing playbook while causing environmental damage
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Space companies are practicing 'starwashing,' per Phys.org—borrowing greenwashing tactics to market space exploration as humanity's grand destiny while downplaying or omitting environmental damage to Earth and orbit. The space economy is projected to reach one point eight trillion dollars by twenty thirty-five.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-starwashing-space-companies...
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