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There are already approximately 250,000 objects in low earth orbit 2cm and up. The risk from these constellations isn't from the satellites themselves directly,
by bagels 5y ago
There are already approximately 250,000 objects in low earth orbit 2cm and up. The risk from these constellations isn't from the satellites themselves directly, but from Kessler syndrome if they start getting smashed by untracked debris.