[plsvn]

This can be built if satellites are ever cut off.

Echo was a ultra thin skin balloon. If lower earth orbit is full of space junk, how long before a large target like that is hit, deflates, is shreaded, and becomes useless? Alot like what happened to the Pageos balloon that was orbited in a higher, presumably safer orbit, back around 1970.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

That is a problem that I did not consider. I think that they can use materials they did not have in the 1960s. Its better than having no satellite communications.

[Rebelbase]

"Echo was a ultra thin skin balloon. If lower earth orbit is full of space junk, how long before a large target like that is hit, deflates, is shreaded, and becomes useless?"