Comment by mikkupikku

Comment by mikkupikku 2 days ago

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NASA tracks debris 10cm or larger. They also detect and statistically estimate debris as small as 3mm in LEO.

This is my source, from 2021 fwiw: https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/ig-21-0...

wolvoleo 2 days ago

10cm is huge, that could even be a functioning 1U cubesat.

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pjscott 2 days ago

So it looks to be just the latency improvement that's noteworthy, then. Thank you!

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egl2020 2 days ago

Maybe coverage, too?

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sfblah 2 days ago

Yes. Sorry for the brief answer. Too bad I got downvoted. There's no size improvement.

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- kortilla 2 days ago
  
  It got downvoted because it had no info about why you claimed there was no improvement.
  SpaceX wouldn’t waste money developing a system that had no improvement over what space force already offers.
  
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