re: #162 darthstar

Space is big, really big. The geosync birds are in an orbit about 42000km above the earth’s centre and they’re spaced about 1.5 degrees apart (it used to be 3 degrees but the tech got better). They’re separated by the equivalent distance between Honolulu and New York around the geosync orbit. Hitting one geosync bird would be a challenge, hitting more than one in a single pass would require an asteroid significantly larger than the Moon. It that happened the gravitational and ocean tidal effects on Earth would be a lot more troublesome than the loss of a Direct Broadcast bird.