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m3kw9 ◴[20 Nov 24 21:03 UTC] No.42198075[source]▶

>>42197824 (OP) #

I would think newer sats will have collision avoidance capabilities and older ones will just crash. Maybe even clean up sats will be developed to collection them

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1. bagels ◴[20 Nov 24 22:08 UTC] No.42198621[source]▶

>>42198075 #

Satellites fail (lost control, or spontaneously explode). Very small debris is everywhere and under 5-10 cm largely untracked, but some are working to fix this gap.

There is no incentive large enough for cleanup (it's expensive, nobody can/wants to pay, and there are a lot of objects)

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