michael_w_busch, 4 months ago @boud The end state of a collisional cascade in low Earth orbit is everything now in those orbits being broken up into bits small enough that radiation pressure and atmospheric drag would eventually remove them - but that takes decades to centuries. As @sundogplanets has described at length before.
@boud The end state of a collisional cascade in low Earth orbit is everything now in those orbits being broken up into bits small enough that radiation pressure and atmospheric drag would eventually remove them - but that takes decades to centuries.
As @sundogplanets has described at length before.