Re:Monitoring a high risk conjunction between two large defu...
by slazaro on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:58AM
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There's lots of info around that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
What's the likelihood of any given collision like this initiating a space debris chain reaction? I'm guessing it's fairly low for any given collision, but quite high if we continue to allow collisions to happen. Would love to hear from someone who knows better than I do, though.