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Space Junk

By Sikho

In 2025 alone, SpaceX's Starlink satellites had to dodge collisions roughly 300,000 times — and the number is still climbing. This is the real story of orbital debris: the 2009 collision that proved a NASA scientist's 1978 warning right, the anti-satellite weapons tests that turned working satellites into permanent debris clouds, the megaconstellation boom that has made near-misses a daily event, and the astronomers watching humanity's view of the night sky disappear one satellite streak at a time. Space Junk tells the full, honest story: the physics of why a paint fleck can destroy a spacecraft, the 1960s-era treaties that were never built for a world with ten thousand commercial satellites, the insurance market already buckling under ordinary losses, and the handful of real, working solutions — alongside the much larger gap between what's voluntary and what's actually required. Grounded in verified 2026 data, real named scientists and engineers, and the actual incidents that got us here, this is a clear-eyed account of a threat that is not science fiction: it is a measurable, accelerating trend that already touches the GPS timing in your phone, the weather forecast on your news app, and the power grid you don't think about until it fails.

269 minutes estimated reading

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