{"id":43357,"date":"2025-12-19T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43357"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:34:29","slug":"an-orbital-house-of-cards-frequent-megaconstellation-close-conjunctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43357","title":{"rendered":"An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/html\/2512.09643v1\/x1.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:268px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2512.09643\">An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>from the spaceweather.org story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Orbital traffic is now at unprecedented levels, especially in dense shells of Starlink spacecraft near 550 km altitude. The study shows that close encounters between space objects happen every 20 seconds across low-Earth orbit. According to SpaceX\u2019s most recent biannual report, <strong><em>Starlink satellites alone executed 144,404 collision-avoidance maneuvers between Dec. 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>so 144k \/ 16 months = 9k \/ month = 12.5 \/ hour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[457,630,21],"class_list":["post-43357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-satellites","tag-space-junk","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43359,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43357\/revisions\/43359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}