Tag: Debris
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The Kessler Effect: When Space Becomes a Cosmic Junkyard
A Space-Age Headache Picture this: you’re trying to launch a satellite to beam high-speed internet to a remote village, but the orbit is so cluttered with junk—old satellites, rocket bits, even a stray astronaut’s wrench—that your shiny new spacecraft gets smashed to bits. Welcome to the Kessler Effect, a scenario where space becomes a chaotic…