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How is it that the US can put thousands of objects into LEO, but somehow they have no collision risk?
by metalman 1y ago
How is it that the US can put thousands of objects into LEO, but somehow they have no collision risk?
- firesteelrain 1y agoSpace is big, man.
- golol 1y agoSpaxeX does clean work.
- metalman 1y agoyes they do! though what has not been brought up is the several ways that everything space x is flying, can be bricked simultaneously, so there failure modes present unique risks
- goatsi 1y agoThey actively move to avoid collisions rather than tumbling uncontrollably.
- gordonhart 1y agoTo give an earnest answer, SpaceX deorbits its second stages, and the vast majority of those thousands of satellites are Starlinks which are in a quite low orbit (naturally decaying) and are intentionally deorbited when they reach EOL.