More satellite questions if anyone has the time to answer… Just basing these questions on some “space junk” animation that I once saw. I was stargazing recently and spotted a satellite – which is pretty common. But not nearly common enough to correlate with all the space junk out there. Do most satellite just not have lights? And is that stuff always colliding together? Seems like that would be inevitable unless there’s some master orbit plan that keeps everything in its own lane up there.
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Satellites are launched often and sometimes, like with starlink, over a hundred can be launched at once. Most of the space trash in orbit is very small, most trash is less than 1 cm across. The light is just the sun reflecting off the satellite, no lights on the satellite.
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