At the end of the day, there are actually better electric cars now for the price. Even starlink is starting to get major market competition for cheaper.
Objects in LEO fall quickly (months to single-digit years) without station-keeping, mostly from atmospheric drag. Anything we put there wouldn’t contribute to a long-term Kessler Syndrome situation. It’s geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) we have to worry about, but once you’re up that high there’s a lot more room for everything.
At the end of the day, there are actually better electric cars now for the price. Even starlink is starting to get major market competition for cheaper.
Please elaborate.
Everyone and their dog wants to gunk up LEO with their soon-to-end-space-flight-forever space junk
Objects in LEO fall quickly (months to single-digit years) without station-keeping, mostly from atmospheric drag. Anything we put there wouldn’t contribute to a long-term Kessler Syndrome situation. It’s geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) we have to worry about, but once you’re up that high there’s a lot more room for everything.
Kessler syndrome is specifically about LEO, and the damage done by debris from collissions, though. Like, that was Kessler’s whole thing.