Questions tagged [kessler-syndrome]
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Would Kessler Syndrome feasibly get bad enough to prevent punching through to higher orbits?
(Related: How expensive would it be to make a spacecraft that can survive leaving an Earth suffering from Kessler Syndrome?)
Kessler Syndrome is a theoretical scenario in which the density of objects ...
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What is a “critical mass” equivalent of number of satellites on LEO that would initiate chain reaction of destruction if 2 of them collide?
If a satellite is destroyed and blown to multiple small pieces of debris, each one of these pieces has tiny probability of destroying another satellite, creating more debris which now will have even ...
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How many spy satellites could be destroyed before the debris field would be too massive to launch moon or mars manned missions?
Obviously this is very statistical. Basically I'm looking for an order of magnitude. One geostationary satellite would cause a pinball effect or would it be more like 10 satellites?
I'm concerned ...
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Could shooting down space junk with a dirtside air cannon actually work?
I ran across this paper Propagation of Surface-to-LEO Vortex Rings
For Orbital Debris Management by a kid working on his BS degree in Mechanical
Engineering.
I really want to believe that something ...
