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Space junk damages International Space Station's robot arm

Flocke Kroes Silver badge

Re: It’s the SDoS!

You are ranting about the wrong constellation for Kessler syndrome. Even if you do blow up a Starlink satellite the bits big enough to break up a satellite are most likely to come down before they hit another Starlink. For Kessler you want to be a bit higher up so it takes much longer for the fragments to get back to Earth but not so high up that everything is too spaced out. OneWeb's proposed constellation is in the sweet spot for a cascade. Their satellites are much more shiny and spend more time visible before dawn and after dusk which is the most effective time to ruin astronomical observations.

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