• BombOmOm
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    195 hours ago

    Everything in low earth orbit (LEO) decays and falls back to earth due to drag; as there is a very, very small amount of air there. The starlink satellites are all in LEO.

    Space junk is mostly a problem higher up. In the higher orbits, old satellites move themselves to graveyard orbits; places where nobody really wants a satellite.

  • @[email protected]
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    03 hours ago

    Having one superconstilation up there is fine, my concern is that once there are 2 or 3 of them, the communication between them to avoid each other will become a mess