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Generally speaking, the higher the orbit the higher the chances of unrecoverable Kessler syndrome. For example if something went wrong way out in geosynchronous
by kitsunesoba 5y ago
Generally 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.