Earth’s orbital environment is a finite resource.
That being the case, some Earth orbits are so crowded and carry deadly, high-velocity pieces of defunct satellite litter and rocket stages they jeopardize humanity’s future in space.
Today’s scenery in space is not a pretty picture.
And that’s the output from experts at the European Space Agency (ESA), waving a number of cautionary flags in its new Space Environment Report 2026.
For more explicit details, go to my new Space.com story – The risk of space debris falling to Earth and causing deaths — and is growing — experts say, go to:


