A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after suffering an unexplained "anomaly"

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A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after suffering an unexplained "anomaly" - Lemmy.World

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The more satellites are up there, the higher the chance one is obliterated by space junk or meteorites. The more obliterated satellites, the more space junk.

It’s going to be a massacre.

The actual name of this phenomenon is “the Kepler effect”

Its where the decades of space junk, grow to such a degree that they keep hitting other satellites and becomes the equivalent of a pinball machine with other satellites.

Its a big issue many have tried to solve

It’s Kessler Syndrome, in case anyone wants to read up on it.