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Yeah, the terminology is wrong. It's not a high orbit, it's a high ballistic trajectory, which then is terminated on the low side. But if that object improbably
by bdamm 6y ago
Yeah, the terminology is wrong. It's not a high orbit, it's a high ballistic trajectory, which then is terminated on the low side. But if that object improbably happens to collide with a high-orbit object then you could get a spreading of the consequences to higher orbit.