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by pepesza
2116 days ago
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Think of Kessler syndrome. One can imagine that blowing (small) N of them would create a cloud of shrapnel posing danger for the whole network. Birds are on really low orbits, so it would clear after some time, but network might not survive this. |
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They have some propellant to make adjustments and stay in orbit a bit longer but if you blow them up you just make the decay process quicker.