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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
And that's just the problem from the relatively narrow, all be it also important, perspective of astroimaging, the even more worrying ramification Paul, is covered in Dr Cheung's comments in the piece:
“Any error, any collision between satellites will cause what is called Kessler syndrome, which is that you have a runaway of space debris that will endanger other satellites,” he says.
“You don’t want to have the situation where people are just sending satellites up there without any coordination, without any consideration for others or for the public good.
“Because in the end, what will happen is that we pollute space for the benefit of no-one.”
The parallels with the rising CO2 emissions problem, is pretty strong...
Mike
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Yes I did neglect to consider a Kessler cascade event. Though in reality I think it would cascade dramatically to the point where thousands of collision events would occur from one single event and wipe out near earth usage for quite some time.
I know when visiting the Australian Space Agency last year we were told that they are performing up to 700 odd "adjustments" per week already to avoid collisions. Times that by massive density constellations and we will have total chaos. Hopefully AI will help to avoid such incidences but could AI keep up or more importantly will it decide not to do so?