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Aside from that, as more of these go up, it increases the odds of collisions happening. I think there's about 100,000 satellite thresholds before that occurs, and you'll start to see the Kessler syndrome. You get these collisions that are resulting in more collisions. And with a number confirmed and coming back down, there's concerns that are increasing that they may pull the risk of hitting people on the ground, and not just hitting but damaging structures, houses, buildings, vehicles, things like this. And there are around 20,000 objects constantly tracked in lower earth objects, and there's within 12,000 satellites. I think there's about 8,500 that belong to Starlink. And each of these has a life span of about five years, and are designed to burn up and try to get in the atmosphere. But some can make it to ground, not very many, but some can make it to ground. There are four of them now that are coming down each day, and as time goes on, you'll be seeing that increase to about five. And then you can see it increase further on as more go up.