SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense and overcoming signal jamming

Re:SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense and overcoming sign... by mirekrusin on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:29AM (#30566527)

By some time you mean some hundreds of millions of years, it’s not plastic in earth/ocean or uranium which degrades relatively quickly in comparison, there is not much of degradation in orbit.

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Re:SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense and overcoming sign... by mirekrusin on Saturday March 05, 2022 @10:35AM (#30568392)

Well, I heard by from someone, but I stand corrected, nasa [0] says:

  Debris left in orbits below 370 miles (600 km) normally fall back to Earth
  within several years. At altitudes of 500 miles (800 km), the time for orbital
  decay is often measured in decades. Above 620 miles (1,000 km), orbital debris
  normally will continue circling Earth for a century or more.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/news/debris_faq.html

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