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China’s megaconstellation launches could litter orbit for more than a century, analysts warn
China’s construction of a pair of communications megaconstellations could cloud low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages for decades or beyond, according to analysts.
HELSINKI — China’s construction of a pair of communications megaconstellations could cloud low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages for decades or beyond, according to analysts. “There will be some 1,000+ PRC [People’s Republic of China] launches over the next several years deploying these constellations,” Jim Shell, a space domain awareness and orbital debris expert at Novarum Tech, said in his analysis shared on social media platform X. “I would recommend other countries use fora such as the UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, which has long-term sustainability on its agenda, to bring up this problem and point-blank ask China how they intend to fix it,” Samson said.
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