Black belt in Mikado, Photo model, for the photos where they put under ‘BEFORE’

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  • I’m aware that not all objects are on the same hight, there are several layers, but currently all layers are saturated with sats, working or not and thousends of tons of debris of every kind. This is getting worst with every launch of new sats. In the page i posted you can see the current objects and their data in real time. Every possible crash, like the some month ago, the small object perforanting the Chinese space station, luckily with not big consequences, and similar which even destroyed some sats, augmented the amount of trash. A lot of abandoned sats out of control, like the one from Rusia make the situation not better. Also not a huge amount of sats not able to changing course to avoid a crash.

    You cannot fill the sky with all kinds of objects ad infinitum, hoping that this will not have serious consequences in the long run, and we are already about to reach this limit. I don’t care about spy or large corporate satellites, starlink etc. but if they are destroyed they produce thousands of tons of garbage that further endangers essential satellites (GPS, Communications, Climate…) even more, avoiding any new launch , when the expression “launch window” takes on a literal meaning, making it a Frogger game.

    Here an report from the ESA, maybe more convincing as my post

    https://www.sdo.esoc.esa.int/environment_report/Space_Environment_Report_latest.pdf