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HarriettMB
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@HarriettMB@toot.wales  ·  activity timestamp last week

Space explorers should be mandated to bring their debris and rubbish home. Starlink, NASA, Orbital etc should not be permitted to continue filling space with rubbish, dead satellites or other stuff. The lesson on this planet is already clear - we make too much disposable stuff and we are polluting at an indefensible rate. #KesslerSyndrome #ProfSamLawler #Astronomy
Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers | The moon | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/22/patches-of-the-moon-to-become-spacecraft-graveyards-say-researchers

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Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landed
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HarriettMB
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@HarriettMB@toot.wales  ·  activity timestamp last week

Space explorers should be mandated to bring their debris and rubbish home. Starlink, NASA, Orbital etc should not be permitted to continue filling space with rubbish, dead satellites or other stuff. The lesson on this planet is already clear - we make too much disposable stuff and we are polluting at an indefensible rate. #KesslerSyndrome #ProfSamLawler #Astronomy
Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers | The moon | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/22/patches-of-the-moon-to-become-spacecraft-graveyards-say-researchers

the Guardian

Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landed
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
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@Lazarou@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Will 2026 be the 'Year Of The Kessler Syndrome?"

I'd rather have the Year Of Linux Desktop thanks...

#Space #KesslerSyndrome #Astrodon

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Prof. Sam Lawler
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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"

A histogram of the number of active satellites in Earth orbit over time, colour-coded by Starlink, other maneuverable payloads, and non-maneuverable payloads.  The number steadily increases with about equal fraction maneuverable and non maneuverable, from 1960 until 2000, when there's a small jump in the number of maneuverable payloads.  And then in 2019 Starlink starts shooting up and absolutely dominates the overall number.  The total number of active satellites follows a hockey-stick shape, where the inflection point is 2019 when Starlink started launching.
A histogram of the number of active satellites in Earth orbit over time, colour-coded by Starlink, other maneuverable payloads, and non-maneuverable payloads. The number steadily increases with about equal fraction maneuverable and non maneuverable, from 1960 until 2000, when there's a small jump in the number of maneuverable payloads. And then in 2019 Starlink starts shooting up and absolutely dominates the overall number. The total number of active satellites follows a hockey-stick shape, where the inflection point is 2019 when Starlink started launching.
A histogram of the number of active satellites in Earth orbit over time, colour-coded by Starlink, other maneuverable payloads, and non-maneuverable payloads. The number steadily increases with about equal fraction maneuverable and non maneuverable, from 1960 until 2000, when there's a small jump in the number of maneuverable payloads. And then in 2019 Starlink starts shooting up and absolutely dominates the overall number. The total number of active satellites follows a hockey-stick shape, where the inflection point is 2019 when Starlink started launching.
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@Lazarou@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@sundogplanets @planet4589.bsky.social
With all this debris soon to come down it's like there has been a war in LEO....

#Space #Starlink #LEO #KesslerSyndrome

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AI6YR Ben
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

IEEE Spectrum: Have We Reached a Space-Junk Tipping Point?

In some orbits, the Kessler syndrome is already underway

https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-space-debris

#spacejunk #satellites #kesslersyndrome #spacex

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AI6YR Ben
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

IEEE Spectrum: Have We Reached a Space-Junk Tipping Point?

In some orbits, the Kessler syndrome is already underway

https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-space-debris

#spacejunk #satellites #kesslersyndrome #spacex

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DoomsdaysCW
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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

So, I was talking with my supervisor about how #Starlink is trying to divert money intended for #FiberOptic, and told her about the #KesslerEffect (which will probably be caused by old Starlink satellites).
"I guess that will knock us back to landlines," was her reply.
"All the more reason to have fiber in place!" I chimed in!

#DarkFiber#KesslerSyndrome

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DoomsdaysCW
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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

So, I was talking with my supervisor about how #Starlink is trying to divert money intended for #FiberOptic, and told her about the #KesslerEffect (which will probably be caused by old Starlink satellites).
"I guess that will knock us back to landlines," was her reply.
"All the more reason to have fiber in place!" I chimed in!

#DarkFiber#KesslerSyndrome

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