“If Amazon experiences disposal failure with satellites within a single year, it has to report that fact to the FCC, as well.”
The FCC cleared Amazon to put 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit once it filed an updated debris plan. The enforcement is a report twice a year and a heads-up when dead satellites fail to come down. Each one is meant to last seven years. Orbit is a commons, and the price of filling it is paperwork.