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Re:FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule by mikeyouse on Friday September 30, 2022 @04:54PM (#33040648)
If we're launching 15k satellites per year as some people expect, the difference between 1 day deorbit and 5 years deorbit is something like 75,000 satellites.
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Re:FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule by Retric on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:33PM (#33041093)
If the risk of collisions in both scenarios is sub 0.0001%, is it a meaningful difference? Very quickly the risk is dominated by being launched into the wrong orbit.
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