alt Hacker NewsStats that are based only on the number of satellites can be very misleading as they don't differentiate between a 5 ton comm sat and an 1 kg cubesat.
Replies
kortilla • 08/01/2025
Weight is irrelevant. They will all tear through anything like butter and break apart into thousands of pieces in a conjunction.
➕ show 1 reply
How relevant is that for orbit occupancy?
A 1 unit CubeSat is 10cm³ and max 2kg / unit, occupying a particular location in an LEO orbit at 28,000 km/h / 17,000 mph doesn’t want to be bumping in to anything either.