The Kessler Syndrome: Starlink and the Closing of the Sky
Space, the final frontier. Stardate: November 25, 2025. You’re aboard China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, a crew rotation vessel ferrying astronauts to and from the Tiangong space station. You’re 250 miles above Earth, moving at 17,000 miles per hour. Through the window, you watch the curve of the planet below. Then you notice something. A crack, spiderwebbing...