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.
Published by SpaceNews on 04/13/2026