Elon Musk ordered Starlink communications system to be turned off during Ukraine attack, book says [AUTHOR NOW CLAIMS THIS IS WRONG, please see the text in the body below]
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Low Earth orbit is the safest orbit because the orbits will naturally degrade due to friction with the atmosphere and fall back to Earth after a set number of years without a boost.
Higher orbits are much worse because the satellites can be there forever and clog up space. Space is really big though, and we are not close to blotting out the sky with satellites, but we want to encourage the use of low Earth orbit whenever possible so we have control over it.
What I mean is that such a communications system should not be controlled by a private company or a person. That should be under public control.
All true, but blotting out the sky isn't what everyone's afraid of. A chain reaction of space junk impacts that locks us on Earth for a century or two would be the worst case scenario.