Why We Need a Better Way to Kill Satellites
2,465. That’s the number of satellites that are whipping gracefully around the Earth as you read this. Of those, only 1,100 are actually active. The rest are either unresponsive or inactive—essentially, space junk. Here’s another number: 21,000. That’s the number of fragments—at least 4 inches wide—that are currently being tracked as they orbit the Earth,…
