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Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled by pmoriarty on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:48PM (#21109815)
"the world's launch capacity will be expanded by two orders of magnitude"

How will so many more launches impact the space junk problem?

From what I understand, there's already a catastrophe waiting to happen if some space junk collides with a satellite and causes a chain reaction of more space junk destroying more satellites, etc... until there's an impenetrable debris field around the earth.

Will having that many more launches and the potential accidents therefrom significantly increase the odds of such a catastrophe?

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Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled by robryan on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:13PM (#21110909)
On the other hand it makes it a lot more cost effective to launch satellites with enough fuel to maneuver around and collect space junk.
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Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled by mrfusion on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:48PM (#21110431)
Conversely it will make it cheap to launch clean up missions and to test different strategies and find the best approach.
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