Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality
epicthundercat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ew… Aliens don’t need more human garbage. Have you seen how much space junk we have?.. We already look like the universe’s junk yard.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The only ones that junk is a danger to is ourselves. Kessler syndrome is no joke.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Except it kind of is.
It can’t really happen at very low earth orbit, where the majority of satellites are, as any imported space junk would deorbit relatively quickly. And it can’t really happen at geostationary orbit, where most of the rest of them are, because when you go out that far there’s just so much space between every single object… The only way you run into something out there is on purpose and after a lot of calculations.
So there’s medium orbits and higher LEO those are the only areas we need to be really careful with.