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A collision would result in 1000s of pieces of debris that would affect everyone’s satellites. Repeated collision would make these orbits unusable until gravity
by javagram 7y ago
A 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.