Booming Satellite Populations Are Making LEO A Riskier Place To Fly

orbital debris tracking
Ground-based radars are tracking about 23,000 objects in Earth orbit, only about 2,200 of which are active satellites.
Credit: ESA
The way OneWeb founder Greg Wyler sees it, collisions in the increasingly crowded beltways circling low Earth orbit (LEO) are only a matter of time, but that is not stopping his company from staking a claim in the nascent industry of broadband small satellite communications. “It’s going to happen,”...

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