Comment on SpaceX lowering orbits of 4,400 Starlink satellites for safety's sakeparentComments−spiritplumber7moYep. That's the things about exponential curves, it's a graph slowly going up until it's no longer "slowly".https://www.thefrogdoctrine.com/p/the-29th-day−indoordin0saur7moThis can't go up forever. There is only so much mass up there in orbit, and much of it is in low earth orbit so will fall back into the atmosphere quickly as it's trajectory gets knocked off course.
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Yep. That's the things about exponential curves, it's a graph slowly going up until it's no longer "slowly".
https://www.thefrogdoctrine.com/p/the-29th-day
This can't go up forever. There is only so much mass up there in orbit, and much of it is in low earth orbit so will fall back into the atmosphere quickly as it's trajectory gets knocked off course.