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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There’s a huge amount of space out there for them.
If you calculate the volume of space occupied by satellites from lowest orbit to highest, and divide by number of satellites, you find that each has, on average, millions of cubic kilometres all to itself.
The geostationary ones are all above the equator, and stay above points on the surface, so they will never cross paths.
On average, half of the orbital satellites, will be on one side of the Earth while the other half are on the other side further reducing the chance of crossed paths.
It would take about 2 years for it to fall out of orbit. But there are pipes that every now and again let off little busts so it can be lifted higher.
If they didn’t have this feature. It would fall after two years
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