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Every SpaceX Starlink satellite has to dodge a collision almost weekly, and experts fear the worst
SpaceX's Starlink constellation performed over 355,000 collision avoidance maneuvers in the past year, with each satellite now dodging debris weekly; space sustainability experts warn that continued constellation growth toward 100,000 satellites will create aggregate collision risks that become unavoidable despite individual mitigation efforts.
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The Wire takeaway
If you build orbital collision avoidance, debris tracking, or space situational awareness software, SpaceX just proved the market: they're burning fuel weekly to dodge ghosts because current trajectory prediction is broken. Regulatory pressure will force better prediction tools before 2027 — that's your customer, and they'll buy to reduce false maneuvers.
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Topics: Space Tech · space-debris · orbital-safety · satellite-constellation · regulatory-escalation · collision-avoidance