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by orbital-decay 842 days ago
Eh, with these particular orbits (~600km, 74.1 and 82.5 deg) it's somewhat fair - high inclination LEO is always crowded and risky. With sun-synchronous orbits it's often even worse than "17,500mph" because the hit can come from almost any direction.

Compare this with the GEO, where everything is in one slow plane, the orbit is well-kept and dead stuff drifts away.