Gregory's Server@sundogplanets I would think that one tiny asteroid or piece of space junk hitting a single satellite, could cause a GIANT mass destruction of hundreds of not thousands of others, like dominos falling!
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 @sundogplanets Time will tell I guess, let's just hope it doesn't cause any human fatalities!  @GoatsLive Asteroids and micrometeoroids are not the problem here - that collision risk goes linearly with the number of objects in low orbit. The collision risk between objects in low orbit goes quadratically with the number of objects, making a collisional cascade possible. As @sundogplanets has explained many many times. @michael_w_busch Thanks, but she was able to answer for herself. I'm a nuclear physicist myself, but was keeping it simple for others reading the thread. |
@GoatsLive Yeah, that's exactly what I'm worried about. But SpaceX is apparently not worried about this...