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Is this grey cause it's un-possible or cause it's snark-junk? The probability of cascade-crash space-junk barrier is crazy small? Right?
by edoceo 5y ago
Is this grey cause it's un-possible or cause it's snark-junk?
The probability of cascade-crash space-junk barrier is crazy small? Right?
- kitsunesoba 5y agoGenerally speaking, the higher the orbit the higher the chances of unrecoverable Kessler syndrome. For example if something went wrong way out in geosynchronous orbit and caused a chain of collisions, there's basically nothing we could do except clean it up manually — on its own it'd remain a mess for thousands of years. For the lowest orbits, worst case scenario is just waiting 2-5 years for it to clear itself up.
- peeters 5y agoThankfully GSO is also 4300x as spatious, and we don't need as many satellites up there in comparison.
- m4rtink 5y agoWould it be a big problem elsewhere than in Geo ? All the Geo birds are basically in one plane and don't really move in repect to each other. So I'm not sure you could really even trigger Kessler syndrome there & it would likely be quite easy to avoid that debris belt if you did.
- tick_tock_tick 5y ago> The probability of cascade-crash space-junk barrier is crazy small? Right? Yes
- rocqua 5y agoMostly because the low orbit means any junk would suffer atmospheric drag pretty quickly and decay.
- mlindner 5y agoNot only is it crazy small, it's impossible. Kessler syndrome doesn't result in "space junk barrier" nonsense. That's from media and movies, not a possible reality.