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Comment by perihelions

3 days ago

- "And even at GEO, there could be a debris cloud as well causing issues, at least until the sun and moon gravity perturbs it enough."

Not a satellite expert, but I understand GEO clears out relatively fast (~decades), because of those 3-body perturbations,

https://www.agi.com/blog/2020/07/geo-satellites-don-t-decay-...

Your link talks about how this is an unexpected result, and only occurs at specific inclinations.

It's new information to me, though. Thank you.