ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agoBy 2035, falling satellites will kill or injure someone every two years, says FAAwww.gizchina.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down1123
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minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-29 months ago The dragon capsule isn’t going to suddenly fall out of orbit somewhere unexpected… It’s highly unlikely, but the possibility isn’t 0. Like, what if an untracked asteroid hits it out of orbit?
minus-squareBlastasaurus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoThere are around 50,000 Starlink near misses per year.
minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoWell, the chance isn’t zero, but that example, being knocked out (disabled or destroyed) by an asteroid has never happened to any spacecraft, ever. Statically the chances of that happening are very very close to zero.
It’s highly unlikely, but the possibility isn’t 0. Like, what if an untracked asteroid hits it out of orbit?
There are around 50,000 Starlink near misses per year.
Well, the chance isn’t zero, but that example, being knocked out (disabled or destroyed) by an asteroid has never happened to any spacecraft, ever. Statically the chances of that happening are very very close to zero.