The Kessler syndrome was a proposed scenario, not a scientific study. A hypothetical.
This article is about countering Starlink. Starlink satellites are in such low orbit, they de-orbit by themselves and fall back and burn up in the atmosphere very quickly if they don’t correct their orbit regularly.
Ooh I’m actually all for this! Destroy ALL the satellites!
The problem is they won’t clean anything up.
Clean what up? The debris that burns up in the atmosphere?
I suggest reading the Kessler syndrome article on Wikipedia. The short of it is that not all that debris is expected to come down.
Eventually it will all come down, but it will take a very long time
Fair. I probably should have written “not all of it will immediately deorbit.”
Oh yeah I was being pedantic. I knew what you meant!
The Kessler syndrome was a proposed scenario, not a scientific study. A hypothetical.
This article is about countering Starlink. Starlink satellites are in such low orbit, they de-orbit by themselves and fall back and burn up in the atmosphere very quickly if they don’t correct their orbit regularly.
And the (heavily editorialized) news headline was to do it explosively. Not sure where you and I are disconnecting here.