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Chinese satellite came within 200m of Starlink-6079, travelling at ~17,400mph.

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[–] Teal@lemmy.zip 41 points 5 days ago (20 children)

Whoa, 200 meters is a close call for sure!

On a related topic, SpaceX is littering the low earth orbit space in a major way. From the link above:

There are approximately 12,000 active satellites now in LEO space, with probably 8,000 operated by Starlink.

Get off our LEO Elon!

[–] Emi@ani.social 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Feel like launching stuff into space by private companies should he illegal/heavily regulated.

[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

It is heavily regulated

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