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At our current launch rate, by 2210 we'll be at around ~22000 effective number of objects in LEO and see ~20-50 "catastrophic collisions" per year. We're not a
by stevenhuang 6y ago
At our current launch rate, by 2210 we'll be at around ~22000 effective number of objects in LEO and see ~20-50 "catastrophic collisions" per year.
We're not at that point yet so concern is not as great (but we're working on it).
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