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by JumpCrisscross 813 days ago
> sound like the Kessler syndrome risk is higher for heavier, higher orbit satellites

A Kessler scenario, not syndrome. Localised to a set of orbits within which you see a rise of collisions. The number of affected orbits doesn’t increase for more than a few months, at which point the problem is constrained within space.