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

The Current Situation in Space

(Extracts below from Arthur Firstenberg’s newsletter) THE CURRENT SITUATION IN SPACE Arthur Firstenberg - August 11, 2020 SpaceX The launch of 57 more satellites by SpaceX in the early morning of Friday, August 7, at 1:12 AM EDT, has brought the number of SpaceX’s “Starlink” satellites orbiting in the Earth’s ionosphere up to 595. Although … Continue reading The Current Situation in Space