Reposting for those not bridged to BlueSky, and to add alt-text, because this is important!
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social posted this morning: "The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates"
@sundogplanets @planet4589.bsky.social
With all this debris soon to come down it's like there has been a war in LEO....
I鈥檝e spent a significant part of my professional life in the satellite industry, and in recent years I鈥檝e been increasingly troubled by the explosion in development and deployment of large constellations of small satellites in low earth orbit (LEO). This excellent (long read) article sets out all the reasons why, especially the effects on launch capacity, frequency spectrum regulation, and avoidance of physical and electronic interference.
