Runaway Starlink satellite avoids ISS collision by accident as SpaceX races toward 15,000-strong DTC network

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The US is preparing to build an alternative to the aging International Space Station by 2030, while SpaceX wants to launch 15,000 DTC satellites in total. Any number of things could go wrong, as a recent incident shows.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Runaway-Starlink-satellite-avoids-ISS-collision-by-accident-as-SpaceX-races-toward-15-000-strong-DTC-network.1189832.0.html

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The fact that the "satellite's current trajectory will place it below the ISS, posing no risk to the orbiting lab or its crew" sounds entirely coincidental.

Only if you know nothing about them.

The ISS orbits the Earth at about 400 km (roughly 250 miles), while Starlink satellites orbit in 3 concentric shells at around 340 km, 550 km, and 1,110 km altitudes.

Thus the safety of the ISS is literally a design feature of Starlink, not a coincidence!