<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Aug 7, 2020, at 12:14 PM, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 10:59 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If we build power satellites in LEO and try to fly them out to GEO,<br>
they get hit with space junk about 40 times. (Excel spreadsheet on<br>
request.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Data source, please? That a single satellite going LEO->GEO will on average be hit 40 times seems way higher than is supported by the data I am aware of - which is that most satellites going from LEO to GEO get hit zero times.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Bigger target though. SSPSs are really big compared to even the biggest satellites, no?</div><div><br></div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></body></html>