Re:Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX
by Gustomaximus on Monday January 19, 2015 @09:55PM
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I'm guessing they are referring to real-estate capacity. Not including space junk there are about 2,300 satellites in orbit. This is quite a proportional increase and the risk of collision with junk will go up.
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Re:Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX
by bbllee on Monday January 19, 2015 @10:08PM
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The collision risk will depend very much on the altitude at which they are placed... this is also a big determiner of design life (N years before the orbit decays and they come back into the atmosphere) and might also have some effect on signal strength / geometry.