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Commented on The sky's gone dark
In addition to having the proper inclination, the debris must be in a stable orbit. If you've got the kind of eccentricity that takes you from LEO/MEO to GEO (and you didn't circularize because you're a hunk o' junk), then...
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Commented on The sky's gone dark
I understand KS occuring in LEO and spreading up into MEO, but geosynchronous orbits have some characteristics that mitigate the problem: 1) Everything has the same angular velocity. 2) Everything has almost the same inclination. 3) The orbit is really,...