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you may have missed the point that the starlink satellites are in really low orbits. Everything in that orbit, whether a working satellite or orbital debris wil
by ghufran_syed 5y ago
you may have missed the point that the starlink satellites are in really low orbits. Everything in that orbit, whether a working satellite or orbital debris will deorbit in a few years due to atmospheric drag.
I’m not sure it’s terribly healthy for you to be worrying this much about things that you admit you don’t really understand?
- alexvoda 5y agoAdditionally, I hypothesise that orbital colissions usually result in loss of altitude. A satellite doesn't just migrate to a higher orbit. Higher orbits require higher velocities, therefore require energy input. For a collision to result in higher orbits it would have to be either with a rogue (not orbiting) object that caught up, or an object in a highly eliptical object that caught up. Head on collisions transform kinetic energy into other forms including thermal, therefore reducing the velocities of both objects.