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Re:Starlink satellites are dodging objects in orbit thousand... by workingdog on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @10:31AM (#36695105)
Whoever wrote this is a trying to get me upset that a company is being more cautious than it needs to be.

Instead, we should be encouraging companies to be cautious, rather than use the evidence of their cautiousness against them in a sad attempt to get rage-clicks.

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Re:Starlink satellites are dodging objects in orbit thousand... by Rovoska on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @10:38AM (#36695208)
Trying reading it again. It does no such thing, and instead is a cautionary warning that this will only become more of a problem for future constellations.
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Re:Starlink satellites are dodging objects in orbit thousand... by svnt on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @10:58AM (#36695516)
> SpaceX’s satellites move when the probability of a collision is greater than 1 in 100,000, while NASA and other industry firms use a threshold of 1 in 10,000.

The article also implies that the uptick is primarily due to a 15% increase in the size of the installation, which is bit silly.

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