The Growing Risk of Space Debris: How Satellite Proliferation Is Polluting Low-Earth Orbit

CircleID - Doug Dawson 11june2025. Low-orbit space is growing increasingly crowded. Starlink has over 7,100 satellites in orbit and has plans to grow to 30,000. Project Kuiper has plans for a constellation of 3,232 satellites. One Web’s first-generation constellation has 648 satellites, with plans to grow to over 6,300 satellites. The Thousand Sails (Qianfan) constellation … Continue reading The Growing Risk of Space Debris: How Satellite Proliferation Is Polluting Low-Earth Orbit

UPDATE ON SATELLITES

Arthur Firstenberg - March 27, 2021 On Wednesday, March 24, 2021, both the number of satellites in low orbit around the earth, and the volume of data they transmit, increased significantly. On Wednesday morning (4:28 a.m. EDT, 8:28 UTC), SpaceX launched another 60 satellites. On Wednesday evening (10:47 p.m. EDT, 14:47 UTC), OneWeb launched another … Continue reading UPDATE ON SATELLITES