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This is true, but the very high orbital speeds means there can be a surprisingly high frequency of collisions even at extremely low density.
by jessriedel 9y ago
This is true, but the very high orbital speeds means there can be a surprisingly high frequency of collisions even at extremely low density.
- Denzel 9y agoThat's also true. Do you have any material I could read on how this frequency increases with the rate of spacecrafts deployed?
- schiffern 9y agoA good place to start might be the original paper by Donald Kessler, "Collision Frequency of Artificial Satellites: The Creation of a Debris Belt" http://webpages.charter.net/dkessler/files/Collision%20Frequency.pdf http://webpages.charter.net/dkessler/files/Collision%20Frequ...