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  • Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    Everyone and their dog wants to gunk up LEO with their soon-to-end-space-flight-forever space junk

    • Byter@lemmy.one
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      20 hours ago

      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.

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        1 hour ago

        Kessler syndrome is specifically about LEO, and the damage done by debris from collissions, though. Like, that was Kessler’s whole thing.