I found the gif in this Reddit post very interesting in that regard: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lczisw/oc_satellite_breakup_events_and_sp

I found the gif in this Reddit post very interesting in that regard: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lczisw/oc_satellite_breakup_events_and_space_debris_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lczisw/oc_... You can see the effect of atmospheric drag and resulting decay for LEO objects. And how catastrophic collisions are. Edit: And original source https://mads-hatters.github.io/ https://mads-hatters.github.io/