Study: Satellite traffic jam calls for ‘urgent’ changes

As SpaceX, Amazon, and others vie for supremacy in the race to establish constellations of communications satellites, the superhighway used by low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites is becoming dangerously cluttered. To avert the equivalent of a multi-car pileup, we need better traffic laws, say authors of a paper published in Science today. Next month’s quadrennial meetingContinue reading “Study: Satellite traffic jam calls for ‘urgent’ changes”
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