LONDON : British satellite company Inmarsat warned on Tuesday of dangerous levels of space debris from satellite constellations planned by Elon Musk's Starlink, Amazon, Chinese operators and others.
"Mega-constellations are talking about tens of thousands of new satellites during this decade - satellites with an expected life of only five to 10 years," he told the Royal Aeronautical Society conference in London. SpaceX-owned Starlink is leading the way so far in the race to launch such huge networks of low-orbit satellites to beam broadband internet. It already has more than 2,000 mass-produced small satellites in orbit and permission for 12,000.
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