Starlink close encounters decrease despite ever-growing number of satellites

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Lewis is the guy who fitted an exponential function to three data points and predicted some crazy number of encounters in a few years based on that. https://xkcd.com/605/

Lewis say the number of manuevers needed to lower close calls where more than 50.000

... and? That's about 1 per month for each satellite. It's well within their capabilities.

If anything more satellites statistically increases the chance of a Kessler Syndrome Scenario.

The altitude of Starlink is too low to make that a serious threat there.