As companies launch new satellites into orbit, many have expressed growing concerns over Earth's orbit and how packed it has become.
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“If you look just from a geometry and physics point of view – if you look at all the different orbits, the space, the surface and the volume that we have – we should have plenty of space for more satellites than we have now,” Francois Chopard, founder and CEO ofIllustration of Earth’s space junk problem. Image source: NASA ODPO
It’s also important to remember that most of the satellites we have orbiting our planet rely on a much smaller 500-kilometer range. As such, we aren’t making use of the entire amount of space between the Earth and the Moon. So, when you start packing satellites and space stations into this space, it fills up quickly. And that doesn’t even count the space junk left behind by old satellites and rockets.
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