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Two problems are orbit determination accuracy (bottlenecked by the amount of ground stations and the low quality of public NORAD data) and prediction of perturb
by orbital-decay 3y ago
Two problems are orbit determination accuracy (bottlenecked by the amount of ground stations and the low quality of public NORAD data) and prediction of perturbations (dominated by the atmosphere and space weather at low orbits). Both areas progressed greatly in the last decade, but still not enough.
- araes 3y agoOther than purely technical issues, there's also social issues. Lot of folks won't have the ability to meet those specs anyway. Many countries simply will not care that much, and launch whatever to wherever, because "tragedy of the commons." And, many are openly antagonistic, and will simply test anti-satellite missiles, because the USA already has em, and tested em, so we can too.