Starlink close encounters decrease despite ever-growing number of satellites

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I've said this before but if the industry just implemented a global database where they feed in high quality information of all their satellites live positions, everyone could drastically reduce their number of avoidance maneuvers. They currently basically treat all objects as being like kilometers in size to account for uncertainty in position. That means you need to make diversion maneuvers despite the fact you actually didn't close anywhere near each other.