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I do worry about what happens when a dozen other companies want to do the same thing for different purposes and we end up with half a million micro satellites I
by asperous 6y ago
I do worry about what happens when a dozen other companies want to do the same thing for different purposes and we end up with half a million micro satellites I instead of 42,000.
But the nice thing is these satellites only have lives of a few years and can easily be deorbited.
- chris_va 6y agoMost of the Starlink constellation is at 500km and higher, so a much longer lifetime. ... it only takes 1 collision to cause a chain reaction when we have 40k satellites, much less 1m.
- CDSlice 6y agoThe lifetime doesn’t seem to be that much longer, according to [0] a Starlink satellite’s orbit will decay in around 5 years. [0] www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-percent-failure-rate-space-debris-risk-2020-10%
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- chris_va 6y agoSatellite Altitude Lifetime 200 km 1 day 300 km 1 month 400 km 1 year 500 km 10 years 700 km 100 years 900 km 1000 years Their satellites are 550km, 1000km, and higher.