Prof warns El Reg solar storms may cause cascading collisions that make some orbits unusable
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Here's the crucial part: When sats shift, they can collide with other objects, creating debris that in turn strikes other satellites, creating a cascade of increasing debris and chaos, a situation dubbed the. If that were to happen, with loads of bits of machinery swirling our world, it will be way more difficult to successfully operate birds in Earth's orbit, or even travel out into space from our planet in one piece.
The key to that, Desai and his colleagues believe, lies in studying the relationship between space weather and space debris.
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