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Kessler syndrome: a standalone construct

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Aerospace engineering

a runaway chain in which collisions among orbiting objects create debris that causes more collisions, forming a belt of debris.

In aerospace engineering, Kessler syndrome refers to a runaway chain in which collisions among orbiting objects create debris that causes more collisions, forming a belt of debris. This meaning comes from Kessler (1978) in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.[1]

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  1. Kessler, D. J., & Cour‐Palais, B. G. (1978). Collision frequency of artificial satellites: The creation of a debris belt. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 83(A6), 2637-2646. https://doi.org/10.1029/ja083ia06p02637

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