If there are many satellites orbiting earth, how do space launches not bump into any of them?
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Space is really big. It’s not a perfect analogy but imagine standing in the middle of a city and shooting a gun straight up randomly. When the bullet comes back down, it’s pretty unlikely to hit anyone. Now since we can track where any operational satellite is, and have a good idea of where most dangerous space debris is, imagine you could point the gun straight up but be able to calculate its trajectory and avoid it coming down on any sidewalks, plazas, or any other areas where there’s likely to be people to get hit. Sure if you aim for say the lake in the middle of the park and there just happens to be a person randomly swimming there, but the odds are astronomically low
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