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Iridium is 140 miles further away from earth than starlink, though..
by aaronblohowiak 2y ago
Iridium is 140 miles further away from earth than starlink, though..
- lxgr 2y agoI could imagine that in a head-on intercept of an Iridium satellite, some of the debris might make it into higher or lower orbital shell, but to be fair I don't know how realistic that actually is.
- jcims 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
- lxgr 2y agoOh, I was aware of that even but not of that debris distribution graph. Thank you! So it does seem like some debris making it into higher and lower orbital shells is quite likely.