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:

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/the-risk-of-space-debris-falling-to-earth-and-causing-deaths-and-is-growing-experts-say

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