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The article suggest it would affect all orbits equally but does it? I find it kind of hard to believe LEO will affect MEO as suggested with GPS but I'm not too
by consp 2y ago
The article suggest it would affect all orbits equally but does it? I find it kind of hard to believe LEO will affect MEO as suggested with GPS but I'm not too knowledgeable on this.
- mlyle 2y agoIt can't affect any significantly higher orbit. Because of overlaps in orbital altitudes and the possibility of weird dynamics causing some fragments reaching a somewhat higher orbit, it's possible that the effects could cascade slightly above the altitude of the original impact event. The scariest things are a dead object like a rocket stage in GTO hitting the debris field. But even then, substantially all the debris will re-enter in a few months: perigee remains roughly the same.