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by walrus01
3006 days ago
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shooting down shit and generating orbital debris in polar orbits is incredibly dangerous to the commons that is low earth orbit, generally. accidental example: https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=iri... no nation-state wants to start the game of shooting down another's satellite, either military or commercial, because everything up there is so vulnerable. it would open china to retaliatory strikes taking down their own polar orbit LEO, inclined LEO (35-45 degree) molnia, MEO and GEO satellites. satellites are fragile things and can be killed with one 200g chunk of tungsten at a closing velocity of 18,000 km/h. |
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