‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control | Space

As satellites fill Earth’s orbit, the space race risks becoming an environmental crisis | Environment

Our relationship with space is changing rapidly. For almost all of human history, the space above us was an unreachable frontier. Yet in a single human lifetime, Earth’s orbit has gone from largely empty to congested with satellites. Meanwhile, although the moon remains mostly inaccessible, over the next few decades it is expected to become…

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