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My point was “number of collision adjustments” makes for a nice scary sounding statistic but alone it’s not a good indicator of risk. The vast majority of thos
by rlt 5y ago
My point was “number of collision adjustments” makes for a nice scary sounding statistic but alone it’s not a good indicator of risk.
The vast majority of those would not have resulted in a collision even without collision avoidance maneuvers. But we do have collision avoidance, and SpaceX knows when a satellite will run out of fuel and can deorbit.