3 ms·

I'm no Musk fan but is this true? I thought Starlink was low altitude so everything would fall back down pretty quickly. And while I imagine its not great for a

I'm no Musk fan but is this true? I thought Starlink was low altitude so everything would fall back down pretty quickly. And while I imagine its not great for astronomy surely it's not much work for some institution or enterprising individual to create a tool for using the known position and timing of such satellites to help remove their impact on images?

DocTomoe 4y ago
Low-altitute, quick-decay orbits are fine as long as the satellite does not get damaged. Once one satellite is hit by something, the debris field will spread to all kinds of orbits, some of them pretty long-lived. [1] is a fascinating read that describes the phenomena surrounding orbital crashes. [1] https://www.universetoday.com/103650/space-debris-a-tale-of-two-satellites/ https://www.universetoday.com/103650/space-debris-a-tale-of-...