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by chroma
1342 days ago
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Regarding launching and collisions: You mostly don't have to worry about it. The visualization makes space look crowded, but each satellite is over 150,000 times smaller than what is visualized. Space is very very big and very very empty. LEO is bigger than the surface of the earth and dozens of times thicker than the earth's crust. It only takes a few radar stations to track all the satellites, and the US Space Force makes their data public.[1][2] Most satellites don't have much in the way of maneuvering capabilities, so you don't need continuous tracking, just updates every few days or so. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillan... 2. https://www.space-track.org/documentation#api |
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