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Re:SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites by hwillis on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:43PM (#18463089)
At any one time there are usually <10k airplanes in the sky,and they still hit each other sometimes despite going 23x slower than satellites
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Re:SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites by JshWright on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:58PM (#18463245)
The vast majority of those collisions occur in areas where planes are forced to congregate (around airports, etc).
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Re:SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites by cartoonfoxes on Thursday November 15, 2018 @07:20PM (#18464914)
Isn't there high traffic where polar intersect? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision.
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Re:SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites by Rooster61 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:45PM (#18463119)
To be fair, a lot of that is because of the fact that planes follow paths that are designed to keep collisions from happening, but aren't always adhered to.
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