$30 Mil would be a drop in the bucket, compared to what the US would have had to fork out, if the satellite had come down in a populated area...of *any* country.
I tend to believe that’s the way the Dems want it. Notice how they would rather spend billions on first responders and not so much on prevention than the other way around.
Compare what we can do to what the Russians did when the Mir Space Toilet fell out of the sky.