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It makes a difference where the junk is. As you say low orbits clean themselves up slowly, but geosynchronous Kessler syndrome could last thousands of years, an
by yummypaint 2y ago
It makes a difference where the junk is. As you say low orbits clean themselves up slowly, but geosynchronous Kessler syndrome could last thousands of years, and geostationary orbits are pretty essential.
- actionfromafar 2y agoYes, if the geostationary orbits were inaccessible, you would require maybe tens or hundreds of satellites launched in a ring to achieve the same the same result. :-/ On the other hand geostationary orbits or so far out it's maybe harder to achieve a dense enough junk field out there to matter? I have no intuition about such scales...