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Old 05-05-2017, 08:15 AM  
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Originally Posted by insider22 View Post
Space debris is already a massive problem for satellites, the ISS, and astronauts. I would assume they have taken that into consideration. Either way at one point there will be a lot of shit floating up there.

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These are low Earth orbit, so they would be well below the space station for example. If they went bad my guess is their orbit would degrade and burn up on re-entry. These will not be really big satellites.
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