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Term of art for this is "design for demise", i.e. make everything of pieces small enough and materials ablative enough that there's less than 1 in 10k chance that any debris will survive to the surface.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...




Planned obsolescence but in a good way.




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