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  "url": "https://theconversation.com/starwashing-how-space-companies-use-the-greenwashing-playbook-while-engaging-in-environmentally-damaging-practices-285904",
  "title": "‘Starwashing’: How space companies use the greenwashing playbook while engaging in environmentally damaging practices",
  "summary": "Orbital data centers, space habitats, mining the Moon – despite taking place in space, the practices many companies are imagining will still affect the Earth.",
  "authors": "Marissa E. Yingling, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Louisville",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T12:37:51.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-conversation-technology",
  "source_name": "The Conversation Technology",
  "source_homepage": "https://theconversation.com/us/technology",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18893",
  "original_url": "https://theconversation.com/starwashing-how-space-companies-use-the-greenwashing-playbook-while-engaging-in-environmentally-damaging-practices-285904",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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