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Joe Supan: The Rise and Inevitable Downfall of 7,000 Starlink Satellites

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Starlink satellites are more densely clustered at higher latitudes, increasing the probability that debris from one collision would hit other Starlink satellites or spacecraft like the International Space Station, the Hubble telescope or the 27-satellite  Global Positioning System. Space junk is a problem here on Earth too.

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Meeting A National Security Challenge: The Race To GPS Resiliency

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As noted in a National Security Space Association  report , China and Russia already have terrestrial complements to space-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), decades after the U.S. originally invented the Global Positioning System (GPS). Government officials are sounding the alarm about how far the U.S.