Company: Plextek Services
LinkedIn Post Text: Six years ago, a satellite operator losing comms had about six months before a likely collision. That window is now three days.The Guardian’s piece on Kessler Syndrome this week makes uncomfortable reading, and the maths behind it is hard to argue with. As orbit gets more crowded and collision-avoidance margins compress, everything depends on seeing what’s coming, and seeing it in conditions where optical sensors can’t help you: eclipse, solar glare, lunar dust. mmWave radar works through all of that, which is why our systems are chosen for rendezvous and proximity operations. The sensing gap and the safety gap are the same thing, and both are getting narrower.Our Sensing in Space paper walks through the technical trade-offs: https://bit.ly/4v1o1cCThe Guardian’s piece is here: https://bit.ly/4tlJwn1
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Media Link Content: ‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control | Space | The Guardian
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