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by hajile 4 days ago
This is putting the world at risk of Kessler Syndrome.
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Not so much Ukraine using drones that use starlink, more the sheer number of starlink sats up and planned, the numbers in the proposed other constellations going up and planned, and the ongoing propensity of Chinese rockets to fragment after use rather than safely de orbit.

For interest:

An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions (2025)

  Our calculations show the CRASH Clock is currently 5.5 days, which suggests there is limited time to recover from a wide-spread disruptive event, such as a solar storm. This is in stark contrast to the pre-megaconstellation era: in 2018, the CRASH Clock was 164 days. 
~ https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643