alt Hacker NewsSurface of a sphere (spheroid) is the square of the diameter. Planes fly at ~10kms, satellites at orders of magnitude higher.
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dredmorbius • yesterday at 7:09 PM
Aircraft have both anticollision detection systems and maneuverability often lacking in satellites.
However, the Earth’s own radius dwarfs the height of LEO, so they’re actually roughly the same.
There are other reasons we don’t currently experience major problems with collisions in space, and why airplanes sometimes do, but it is not this.