• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      These are in LEO. Once they lose propulsion after 3-5 years, they fall and burn up on re-entry. It isn’t possible for these satellites to cause Kessler Syndrome.

        • mike901@beehaw.org
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          It could send debris into a more elliptical orbit, but it wouldn’t be possible for it to raise the entire orbit above LEO. The point of impact will remain in the orbital path and since the entire orbit is currently in LEO, there will be, by extension, some part of the new orbit still in LEO and therefore subject any debris to atmospheric capture.

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      I guess we can choose between people in remote areas having no internet access and Kessler syndrome :/

      The third way costs not 900 million, but hundreds of billions, maybe trillions. Rich countries can afford it, but many can not.