Live orbital activity
- Thread starter Brogan
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It is getting ridiculous up there.
It was a plot point in the film Gravity but it is a very real threat that scientists are concerned about where there is an unstoppable chain reaction of collisions. If one object smashes into another, the expanded debris field then takes out more objects and so on until swathes of satellites get wiped out.
Look at Starlink. Musk has launched over 10 thousand satellites and wants to put almost 35 thousand up there.
It was a plot point in the film Gravity but it is a very real threat that scientists are concerned about where there is an unstoppable chain reaction of collisions. If one object smashes into another, the expanded debris field then takes out more objects and so on until swathes of satellites get wiped out.
Look at Starlink. Musk has launched over 10 thousand satellites and wants to put almost 35 thousand up there.
I think the geostationary ones are a lot further out. To rotate at the same speed as the earth they'd need to be at least 20 thousand miles up
