Friday, October 10, 2025

Kessler Syndrome Space Debris Threatens Satellites

Recommendable! Over the past several decades many articles have been written about the dangers of accumulating space junk in critical low earth orbits.

This article stresses the risks of small particles and pieces of which there are many more, but they are also more difficult to observer and track!

Cleaning space trash may become fast an issue to be solved by humanity!

"... SpaceX’s Starlink satellites maneuvered around possible debris impacts 144,404 times over the first half of 2025. That’s a collision warning every couple of minutes, night and day, for six months straight—three times the rate of the previous six months. ..."

Kessler Syndrome Space Debris Threatens Satellites - IEEE Spectrum "In some orbits, the Kessler syndrome is already underway"

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