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THE COST OF AVOIDANCE

Dodging debris is a recurring tax

Every conjunction with a dead satellite or fragment is paid for again, by every operator sharing its orbit. Detumbling makes an uncontrolled object safe to capture, so removing it is paid once.

  1. Lifetime

    40+

    Avoidance maneuvers per Starlink satellite per year, June 2025 – May 2026

    Propellant spent on avoidance cannot be used for station-keeping or a controlled deorbit. More frequent maneuvers shorten operational life against a design life of roughly 5–6 years.

    Space.com · New Space Economy

  2. Knock-on uncertainty

    40 km

    Forecast position error after a single avoidance maneuver

    A COMSPOC analysis found one maneuver can throw off trajectory forecasts for several days, which generates more conjunction warnings for every other operator nearby.

    KeepTrack

  3. Concentration risk

    1,700+

    Of 6,873 Starlink maneuvers, December 2021 – May 2022, were for COSMOS 1408 debris

    Fragments from the November 2021 anti-satellite test, one event in one orbital region, drove about a quarter of the constellation’s avoidance workload.

    SpaceX semiannual report to the FCC

About this illustration

Our orbital environment

≈47,140
tracked space objects
1.5 million
estimated debris fragments, 1–10 cm

SatellitesDebris

The scene uses synthetic positions and enlarged objects to make the orbital environment visible. It is an artistic sample, not live tracking, a catalog or a one-to-one population map.

ESA Space debris by the numbers ↗
Statistics updated 14 October 2026. Small-debris estimate: MASTER-8 model, February 2026.

From concept to evidence

The floating experiment, zero-g laboratory, rocket and orbital mission are imagined staging. The arm is proposed ground-test CAD. No hardware, completed experiment or launch is claimed.

The current flight end-effector concept proposes one diametrically magnetised NdFeB rotor and a counter-rotating non-magnetic flywheel. This is separate from the Arago V1.1 ground-test CAD shown here and has not been built or flight-validated.

Braking is illustrative and depends on relative motion, target material, geometry and control. Arbitrary magnet rotation does not always brake. No measured performance or physical stopping time is shown.

Spacecraft reaction and thermal effects are not modeled. Detumbling does not remove an object from orbit.