With news of latest push of another 1800 satellite going into space to create another global internet network.
How does so many satellites together with many other satellites stay in orbit without being a gigantic pileup in space?
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Space is big. Much bigger than the oceans, and you wouldn’t expect an extra 1800 ships to constantly threat crashing in the middle of atlantic right?
Also their orbits are planned. For communication we want them to be geostationary so that when we point an antenna at a point the satellite stays there.
There are some satellites with more weird orbits but those are rather an exception.
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