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Russia and China Develop Joint Plan to Counter Starlink; It Involves Physical Destruction of Satellites (militarnyi.com)

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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Ooh I'm actually all for this! Destroy ALL the satellites!

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[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

The problem is they won't clean anything up.

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[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Clean what up? The debris that burns up in the atmosphere?

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[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I suggest reading the Kessler syndrome article on Wikipedia. The short of it is that not all that debris is expected to come down.

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Eventually it will all come down, but it will take a very long time

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[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Fair. I probably should have written "not all of it will immediately deorbit."

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah I was being pedantic. I knew what you meant!

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[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

The Kessler syndrome was a proposed scenario, not a scientific study. A hypothetical.

This article is about countering Starlink. Starlink satellites are in such low orbit, they de-orbit by themselves and fall back and burn up in the atmosphere very quickly if they don't correct their orbit regularly.

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[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago

And the (heavily editorialized) news headline was to do it explosively. Not sure where you and I are disconnecting here.

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