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Whoever solves the orbital debris issue will be more important than Gates, Steve and Musk combined! It is a real issues, and nobody has a properly solution. Bef
by vmfunction 3y ago
Whoever solves the orbital debris issue will be more important than Gates, Steve and Musk combined! It is a real issues, and nobody has a properly solution. Before we launch a bunch of tech into space, let's figure out how to do that. So we don't turn or orbit like the landfill here on earth.
- lupusreal 3y agoThere is no orbital debris problem in LEO. Anything in LEO experiences atmospheric drag and only stays up there for a few years unless periodically boosted. If the worst case scenario unfolded in LEO, a few thousand satellites in LEO got smeared by something like ASAT weapons and caused a huge cloud of debris that started wrecking anything new put up there, we could simply wait the problem out in less than one generation.