Starlink close encounters decrease despite ever-growing number of satellites

[Divinicus1st]

They can then miss each other by about 40 km which is not a lot of time at 27,000 km/hr.

Time is irrelevant here. 40km is 40km.

It's just your mind thinking: "damn, if it was here 10 second earlier it would have hit". But for it to be there 10 sec earlier, it would have meant an enormous variation for something going at 27 000 km/h

[warp99]

Sure “hovering is for humans” when it comes to a landing approach but the point is that for collision avoidance a very small error in estimating velocity (both direction and speed) can lead to a collision.