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Old 10-28-2021, 08:39 PM   #66 (permalink)
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Debris relatively quickly suffers orbital degradation and re-enters the atmosphere, so there's a cleanup mechanism there.
What we learn is that Amazon's constellation is at a different altitude than Starlink (590 vs 550km?), and the concern appears to be large amounts of alumina dispersed in the upper atmosphere.
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