How long before the "Spaceways" become saturated?

Mini-satellites

SSL gets a mention...

"Thomas Immel has spent two decades as a scientist at the Space Science Laboratory at UC Berkeley.

"These new capabilities open up a Pandora's box," he says.

Some applications may well be harmful or controversial.

"What is clear is that 10 years from now we'll be having another argument over the next implementation of technology that we can't even imagine.""

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I think we are already there. At least when it comes to orbiting the earth. There is quite a bit of junk up there ranging from launch hardware to dead satellites, Then there is the debris from stupid experiments like proving that objects in orbit can be blown apart.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

How long before the "Spaceways" become saturated?

Mini-satellites

SSL gets a mention...

From being ejected/launched from an ISS airlock, who then gets to do an orbit adjust to avoid meeting each other again later around their orbits?

Is the release timed just before an ISS orbit boost? Or do the cubesats manoeuvre to change their orbit out of the way?...


Rather interesting!

Scary for surveillance if used for nefariousness... Or very good for science and positive coordination...


Keep searchin',
Martin

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I think we are already there. At least when it comes to orbiting the earth. There is quite a bit of junk up there ranging from launch hardware to dead satellites, Then there is the debris from stupid experiments like proving that objects in orbit can be blown apart.

+1

We're in danger of looking like a junkyard to anyone looking at us from the outside :/

How long before the "Spaceways" become saturated?

Then there is the debris from stupid experiments like proving that objects in orbit can be blown apart.

Red China

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