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SpaceX is planning to put 12,000 more satellites up, so their refusal to move to avoid a possible collision they caused is notable. They've also refused to com
by dahdum 7y ago
SpaceX is planning to put 12,000 more satellites up, so their refusal to move to avoid a possible collision they caused is notable.
They've also refused to comment, and Musk's reputation doesn't engender faith in their reasons.
- dzhiurgis 7y agoPerhaps not a bad plan if you want to destroy everyone elses but USA’s sats
- javagram 7y agoA collision would result in 1000s of pieces of debris that would affect everyone’s satellites. Repeated collision would make these orbits unusable until gravity and atmospheric drag naturally deorbit the fragments.
- dzhiurgis 7y agoafaik thats not really long time
- kakwa_ 7y ago"Not a very long time" is pretty vague. Also, even if the impact is limited in term of long lasting debris, losing several satellites, and as a consequence losing the services they provide plus having to replace them is definitely a large impact which will last years.
- yreg 7y agoWhen it happens we will have to cease all launches for a few years, until the sky clears out. That would certainly be terrible, but not ice-caps-melting-terrible.
- dwaltrip 7y agoA lot of space debris doesn't have very much drag (imagine a small round chunk of metal) and can taken tens of years or longer to de-orbit. So this approach won't work.