If there are many satellites orbiting earth, how do space launches not bump into any of them?
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Space is big. That helps. Second, is that every satellite above a certain size is tracked and warnings are put out if there are predictions that they will approach to within a certain distance of each other so that the operators can decide whether to perform a maneuver. Obviously it’s not a perfect system, most notable when an active Iridium satellite collided with a defunct Cosmos (Russian government) satellite.
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