5 ms·
Not really. High speed collisions are high entropy events, so debris fills state space, and you get SOME debris at high altitudes (usually in highly eccentric
by bodhiandphysics 6y ago
Not really. High speed collisions are high entropy events, so debris fills state space, and you get SOME debris at high altitudes (usually in highly eccentric orbits). That being said, low altitude is much safer since you don’t get as many long lived dead satellites
- jerf 6y agoFrom super-low Earth orbits, more of the orbits that go really high also impact Earth or its atmosphere on the other side, so they only are up there once, rather than over and over and over.
- bodhiandphysics 6y agoYep!