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hwillis
on Nov 15, 2018
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SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satel...
At any one time there are usually <10k airplanes in the sky,and they still hit each other sometimes despite going 23x slower than satellites
JshWright
on Nov 15, 2018
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The vast majority of those collisions occur in areas where planes are forced to congregate (around airports, etc).
cartoonfoxes
on Nov 16, 2018
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Isn't there high traffic where polar intersect? See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
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Rooster61
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To be fair, a lot of that is because of the fact that planes follow paths that are designed to keep collisions from happening, but aren't always adhered to.
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