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I'm a big fan of the idea of competition when it comes to internet providers, so this is good news.

I can't help but worry about where this ends though. 100,000 satellites orbiting the sky? Will our sky just be a bunch of moving dots, like you see in some sci-fi movies?

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China will no doubt follow with tens of thousands. Maybe India, Japan etc too

Could Kessler Syndrome become a real thing?

They're nowhere the altitude to do any harm.

This is in LEO so the damage would be limited - these are designed to decay and fall out of orbit in a few years - and so would most debris.

Most communication satellites (currently) have much higher altitudes, where such an event would be much worse as the debris would stay in orbit for much longer.

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