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Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It shouldn’t be too hard to engineer orbit decay as a feature to avoid space junk.

Consider that space junk is so sparce it’s not really much if a consideration for launches. It’s like the rings of Saturn: the likelihood of a collision is so remote that they didn’t even consider it when we had a satellite move through it.

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Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It’s like the rings of Saturn: the likelihood of a collision is so remote that they didn’t even consider it when we had a satellite move through it.

I didn’t realize that, what mission is this your talking about? Cassini?

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- Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yes, Cassini
  
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Pretty sure its the asteroid belt, not planetary rings, that you don’t really need to think about when passing through.

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- Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s my understanding that the idea of a dense asteroid belt (the kind Han Solo might try to hide in) is basically pure fiction, they don’t exist. However… that is essentially exactly what some parts of a planetary ring system may look like up close. So perhaps Han could hide in a planetary ring.
  
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- Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The satellite Cassini passed through a less dense section of Saturns rings and was met only by dust particles, despite the rings being populated by objects between 10 meters and the size of mountains.
  
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