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Your math gets you within an order of magnitude or so, check out NASA's work on ORDEM to predict this with Monte Carlos. Two things: 1) The probability is ver
by clans 4y ago
Your math gets you within an order of magnitude or so, check out NASA's work on ORDEM to predict this with Monte Carlos.
Two things:
1) The probability is very sensitive to # of objects and size assumptions. If you decrease the area of the bullets by an order of magnitude, the probability that it you will hit one 10 m^2 satellite in a year goes to 10%+
2) satellite orbits are not randomly distributed. Within 700-900 km altitude, the probabilities are ~2-3 orders of magnitude higher (1/1000/m^2/y)
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150003495/downloads/20150003495.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150003495/downloads/20...
- dr_dshiv 4y agoYay for napkins! I don’t actually see in the presentation where risk estimates are given. Only spatial densities. And why would decreasing the area of the bullets increase the probability of hitting a satellite?