• Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    It might be super cheap in the future to launch them but it will be into a field of fast moving garbage. The cost effectiveness of throwing more and more telescope up into space to try and get pictures before they get knocked out by the debris of the past will be a losing proposition.

    • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Nah, everything at super low orbits like these constellations decay quite quickly. Even in cases of total loss of all satellites (eg Kessler Cascade), they would all reenter within a couple years.

      You could relatively easily just put your space telescopes above that orbit and they’d be just fine.