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OneWeb's constellation is high enough that it'll take a lot more than 25 years for any satellite that fails to deorbit itself to decay. On the way down, these debris will cross the ISS orbit and the most popular sun-synchronous orbits.

Starlink is lower, but still above the ISS and the SSO at 282km.



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