• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    Don’t Star Link satellites come down on their own after a few years? There’s no way they have high enough orbits to cause any sort of Kessler syndrome effect for anything other than about 2 years max and even that’s doubtful. People really underestimate how truly massive LEO is, the satellites are not even particularly big ones. There’s just no way.

    • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.world
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      Anton Petrov summarized the scientific white paper on YT. Maybe go watch it. Yes it is possible. It would still last decades. But probably would not propagate further up I think. Higher orbits can shut out space for centuries.

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      AFAIK they specifically planned for this to happen to reduce the chances of Kessler syndrome (it does increase costs however)