If there are many satellites orbiting earth, how do space launches not bump into any of them?

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If there are many satellites orbiting earth, how do space launches not bump into any of them?

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The easiest comparison is that there is about one satellite per state in the US.

Except they’re in multiple orbits of different height, so really it’s like one satellite per country in the world.

Just to give a sense of scale.

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