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EPISODE · Sep 30, 2021 · 38 MIN

#128 Positioning Satellites in New Space

from Engineering Matters

As the regions of space around Earth become increasingly crowded with new satellites, the most popular orbits of all are becoming hazardous. Beyond a point, the crowding will reach a level at which a collision between two objects would result in a cascade. The initial collision would lead to yet more collisions until Low Earth...

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