SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’

Re:SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are g... by kitsunesoba on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:12PM (#28250155)

Generally speaking, the higher the orbit the higher the chances of unrecoverable Kessler syndrome. For example if something went wrong way out in geosynchronous orbit and caused a chain of collisions, there's basically nothing we could do except clean it up manually — on its own it'd remain a mess for thousands of years.

For the lowest orbits, worst case scenario is just waiting 2-5 years for it to clear itself up.

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Re:SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are g... by m4rtink on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:14PM (#28250878)

Would it be a big problem elsewhere than in Geo ? All the Geo birds are basically in one plane and don't really move in repect to each other.

So I'm not sure you could really even trigger Kessler syndrome there & it would likely be quite easy to avoid that debris belt if you did.

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Re:SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are g... by peeters on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:37PM (#28250465)

Thankfully GSO is also 4300x as spatious, and we don't need as many satellites up there in comparison.

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