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Originally Posted by foofighter15
the whole space junk yard thing bothers me. Have we learned nothing?.
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Yeah it bothers me a bit to, but lets put it into perspective, 10-50k pieces in a area as big as the area they're talking about, is quite literally a win the lottery possibility, probably alot less likely.
For example, in the article they state that they(ESA) alter the orbit of their satelites if the threat is percieved to be above 1 in 10000. I'd be interested in finding out how often they've actually done it, as most satelites have pretty limited reserves of fuel on board, mostly needed for maintaining orbit.