What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? - Moriba Jah
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What would happen if one day all of humanity’s artificial satellites suddenly disappeared? Within hours, most of the planet’s traffic would grind to a halt, the world economy would shut down, and most countries would declare a state of emergency. Even in the best-case scenario, our civilization would be set back by decades. So, what are the odds of this actually happening? Moriba Jah investigates.
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We are interested in making space safer, more secure, and long-term sustainable. This can be seen as doing such things as helping space operators avoid collisions in space, monitoring the behaviors and activities in space and developing a body of evidence to hold entities accountable, as well as quantifying the carrying capacity of orbital space and managing this capacity under a global governance. Our work can greatly aid this by measurably making space more transparent and predictable.
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