Orbit is filling up fast. Now comes the awkward bit: pre-empting and handling a crisis.

Orbit is filling up fast. Now comes the awkward bit: pre-empting and handling a crisis.

Earth’s orbit is “on track for a catastrophe.” That was the rather alarming prediction of the authors of a recent piece published in The Conversation. As the argument goes, orbit is filling up fast, and both nation-states and private companies plan to add tens of thousands of spacecraft to the thousands already there. This has […] The post Orbit is filling up fast. Now comes the awkward bit: pre-empting and handling a crisis. appeared first on SpaceNews.

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