Just 10 years ago, a mere thousand or so operational satellites may have orbited our planet, but there will be tens or even hundreds of thousands a decade from now.
Experts have been sounding alarm bells for years that Earth orbit is getting a bit too crowded. So how many satellites can we actually launch to space before it gets to be too much?
"Five or 10 years from now, we'll have somewhere between 20,000 and 100,000 satellites, and I am very skeptical that at the upper number of 100,000 things can be operated safely," said Jonathan McDowell, Astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
"It's going to be like an interstate highway in a rush hour in a snowstorm with everyone driving much too fast."
https://www.space.com/how-many-satellites-fit-safely-earth-orbit?ref=thefuturist
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