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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel
Lex Fridman Podcast
What's the Danger of the Debris in Space?
When you blow up a satellite, all those pieces of that satellite are now millions of bullets in a halo around the Earth. So some things get blown up faster according to its orbit, faster so they'll go a little bit higher elliptically. Some things will get slowed down in that explosion and actually re-enter. You have this debris field, but it more or less becomes a band of like no-no,. Like a big scary sharp scary bullets that can destroy another spacecraft. And then all of a sudden, especially now Starlink, we're talking about thousands and thousands and thousands of satellites in space. If all of a suddenly one, a couple of them crash and blow up
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