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Satellites are crowding Earth’s orbit and a space disaster could be days away
Low Earth orbit has shifted from a quiet scientific outpost to one of the busiest pieces of real estate in human history.
Thousands of satellites are tightly packed into low Earth orbit, and the overcrowding is only growing. Scientists have ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth's orbital overcrowding is approaching a breaking point, according to a new analysis using a warning metric called the Crash ...
The amount of satellites in the Earth's orbit is increasing at a rapid rate, which could be a recipe for disaster. Here's ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN
Less than 3 days: The CRASH clock for crowded orbits
“The Sun is the boss, and we have to work around that.” The line, offered by NASA mission operations engineer Russell DeHart, carries extra weight now that low Earth orbit is filling with machines ...
Astrophysicists are warning that low Earth orbit is reaching a critical tipping point, where satellite collisions could happen faster than previously imagined. A new metric, the ...
A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...
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