Booming Satellite Populations Are Making LEO A Riskier Place To Fly

Irene Klotz March 04, 2020

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,”...

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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