Op-ed | Is there enough room in space for tens of billions of satellites, as Elon Musk suggests? We don’t think so.
by Miles Lifson and Richard Linares — January 4, 2022 Currently, there are more than 4,500 active satellites in orbit. While it took more than five decades to reach a thousand simultaneous active satellites, the growth in the active orbital population has exploded over the last decade, driven largely by…
bubmagJanuary 4, 2022