How do satellites get put into orbit? They must be organized in some way so they don’t crash into eachother.
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I know we see these pictures which show the earth surrounded by a solid film of floating space junk, and those things are really there, but the pictures are not to scale. If you’re in space, like for example on the ISS, and you look at the earth or around you, you can’t see other satelites. There’s a LOT of space out there, and two satelites meeting is something very unlikely to happen. When spacecraft rendevouz in orbit it’s a very deliberate and calculated procedure. That being said it’s not impossible, and just sending stuff up there with no organization may not be a problem now but it can become if we keep doing it.
So when a satelite is sent up into orbit its orbital parameters are decided based on its use and any other satelites being in a similar orbit.
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