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 very rarely, if ever, have lights. What you see is the sun reflecting off their solar panels or metal bodies
They are launched very frequently. For example, spacex sometimes has multiple satellite launches each month.
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