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Keep in mind that dot sizes are hugely exaggerated. Additionally, it's hard to see how the slow moving dots can collide, this visualization can only show the ge
by orbital-decay 9y ago
Keep in mind that dot sizes are hugely exaggerated. Additionally, it's hard to see how the slow moving dots can collide, this visualization can only show the general sense of "how much stuff there is in orbit", which can be entirely misleading and doesn't reflect the real problem.
To be helpful in understanding the problem, it should probably include collision probabilities and relative velocities involved. It will be immediately ovious that, for example, GEO is absolutely safe despite having quite a bunch of "dots", and the most dangerous place is 15 and 14 orbits per day Sun-syhchronous orbits, where the most remote sensing stuff lives.