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2.8 days to disaster: Why we are running out of time in low earth orbit (phys.org)
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[–] Claidheamh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

currently all layers are saturated with sats

This is not true. Only LEO at best is saturated. And Kessler syndrome in LEO would have zero effect on GEO or other orbits.