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pith:2026:B5A5LLEOXZHYRKNG6FGLI2NREA

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Orbital Debris in Earth Orbit: Operations, Stability, Control, and Market Formation

Slava G. Turyshev

Orbital sustainability in Earth orbit is controlled by disposal reliability, high-risk conjunction uncertainty, and legacy inactive object hazards.

arxiv:2603.23552 v3 · 2026-03-22 · astro-ph.IM

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C1strongest claim

The near-term orbital sustainability is controlled by three variables: disposal reliability for newly launched spacecraft, encounter-state uncertainty in the high-risk conjunction tail, and the residual hazard stock of inactive high-mass legacy objects.

C2weakest assumption

That public statistics through 2026 and a reduced-order framework suffice to rank interventions without detailed modeling of collision kernels or breakup severity.

C3one line summary

Orbital debris sustainability is governed by three control variables—disposal reliability, encounter uncertainty, and legacy hazard stock—leading to linked markets for mitigation and remediation.

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Orbital Data Centers: Spacecraft Constraints and Economic Viability

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First computed	2026-05-20T01:05:11.653125Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f41d5ac8ebe4f88a9a6f14cb469b12027b4c42593a9e5b0ec5312242587cf9d

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.23552 · arxiv_version: 2603.23552v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.23552 · pith_short_12: B5A5LLEOXZHY · pith_short_16: B5A5LLEOXZHYRKNG · pith_short_8: B5A5LLEO

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B5A5LLEOXZHYRKNG6FGLI2NREA \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 0f41d5ac8ebe4f88a9a6f14cb469b12027b4c42593a9e5b0ec5312242587cf9d

Canonical record JSON

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