"The risk of falling space junk hitting airplanes is on the rise"
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/the-risk-of-falling-space-junk-hitting-airplanes-is-on-the-rise-experts-warn
Just as @sundogplanets warned us back in Nov 2024:
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/musks-space-junk-is-a-threat-to-us-all/
@markhurst I am very confused by the first sentence in the article: once a WEEK space junk falls into the atmosphere?? Starlink alone is deorbiting 1 or 2 satellites per day....
Also the last quote of the paper is... not great?? "The sky is not going to fall on your head. But we are working on ways to do it even better."
IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE REASSURING?!!!
(Sorry for all caps, not yelling at you, just... yelling into the void...)
