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ICYMI - The Real Reason Everyone Is Racing to Launch Satellites
Kessler syndrome is the risk hiding behind the race to launch satellites, and it has very little to do with giving you better internet.
Greg Fish traces the satellite boom back to social media and search companies running out of new users to grow into around 2007 and 2008, which is what pushed Google, Facebook, and eventually SpaceX toward beaming internet down from orbit instead. Now Starlink wants forty two thousand satellites, China is planning two hundred thousand, and Amazon and Europe are both building their own constellations on top of sixty years of existing space junk.
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