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If we're launching 15k satellites per year as some people expect, the difference between 1 day deorbit and 5 years deorbit is something like 75,000 satellites.
by mikeyouse 4y ago
If we're launching 15k satellites per year as some people expect, the difference between 1 day deorbit and 5 years deorbit is something like 75,000 satellites.
- Retric 4y agoIf the risk of collisions in both scenarios is sub 0.0001%, is it a meaningful difference? Very quickly the risk is dominated by being launched into the wrong orbit.