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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by dangerwill on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:08AM (#38265073)
I think it is much more likely that Musk is going to cause a kepler syndrome collapse with starlink well before spacex is actually going to consider creating a moon base.
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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by colordrops on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:15AM (#38265217)
It's been said countless times that starlink will not cause Kepler syndrome. They are in too low an orbit and atmospheric drag would bring down any debris relatively quickly.
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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by 0_____0 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:32AM (#38265555)
wincing

Kessler.

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by jjoonathan on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:49AM (#38265832)
It looks like SpaceX says 5 years for passive deorbit in their FCC filing. If a satellite were pulverized, I would expect the small pieces to have higher A/m and deorbit even faster.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/ekyibk/commen...

It's not a good look to criticize an org for being careless when you haven't even put bare minimum effort into seeing if they were careful.

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