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Comment by eru | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15

[−]eru · 2026-11-15 Sun 07:27 UTC · link

Low earth orbit can't sustain a Kessler syndrome for more than a few years. Atmospheric drag is too large. (And it gets proportionally larger for smaller fragments.)

[−]defrost · 2026-11-15 Sun 07:32 UTC · link

So just half a decade of LEO's being economically infeasible then?

I guess that gives the rebels time to organise for the next wave of fragmentation and shrapnel launches.

[−]jdb9001 · 2026-11-15 Sun 13:16 UTC · link

more worried about the upper range of LEO that'll last a couple hundred to thousand years.