You have heard of the Kessler Syndrome I suppose?
“You have heard of the Kessler Syndrome I suppose?”
These satellites are controlled and tracked, and can be avoided. These satellites de orbit when the reach end of life. These satellites are in extremely low orbits, and debris from collisions, if they occur, will be quickly de orbited by the atmosphere that extends up in to those orbits.
It’s all been calculated and modeled. Stop scaring the children.
Not in name, but the theory, yes. It seems like it would make sense to get an international consensus on requiring all objects put into LEO to have a method of self-deorbiting at the end of their useful life. It would only involve a method of reducing the speed enough to fall back into the atmosphere and burn up. A small retrorocket and an orientation method would do it.