Orbiting debris from US, Chinese, Russian, and European launches crowds low Earth orbit shells, raising collision risk for active satellites and requiring new national and international removal standards.
The set of rules, tracking systems, and coordination processes governments use to manage orbital objects and prevent collisions, with no binding international regime in place.
full dossier ›LEO is filling faster than debris can clear; this beat tracks the collision risk, the fragmented pile of debris, and the contested rules meant to manage both.
Commerce expands space situational awareness as active-debris-removal market and ADR insurance emerge