Many experts are worried that groups of satellites, like SpaceX's mega constellations, could hinder planetary defense plans.
constellations, like those it has planned for its internet service, would only clog up the discovery process even more. Multiple participants in the survey shared concerns over the growing amount of satellites appearing in orbit around our planet.
“The satellites basically render swaths of the detector unusable for detection of NEOs, and the tracks compound/sum for the four images used to find NEOs,” one participant wrote in response to one of the survey’s questions. Others admit that we could work around these problems but would require other spacecraft similar toHowever, SpaceX and other companies continue to place satellites in orbit, including SpaceX’s well-known.
“I am more concerned about the Kessler syndrome,” another participant noted. The Kessler syndrome is a theoretical situation where Earth’s orbit is overpopulated with
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