Timeline for What is a "critical mass" equivalent of number of satellites on LEO that would initiate chain reaction of destruction if 2 of them collide?
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| Jun 23, 2020 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1275217074713919488 | ||
| Jun 17, 2020 at 22:42 | answer | added | LostPhysx | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 15, 2019 at 18:02 | comment | added | Slarty | This would depend on how big the satellites were, their sturdiness of construction, the exact orbits followed and other things. So it is not a well-defined number. As an extreme example, if a single satellite packed with small ball bearings was detonated in low Earth orbit I think it would be enough to lay waste to a wide range of low Earth orbits for some time. | |
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| May 14, 2019 at 13:37 | history | asked | Mariusz Sakowski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |