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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Imagine you fell from space and landed in the ocean.

Now imagine the odds of randomly landing on a boat.

tens of thousands of them sailing around, and yet the odds are infinitesimally low.

The odds of hitting a satellite in orbit around earth are orders of magnitude even less likely than that example because the volume of space around Earth is unfathomably vast.

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