WIRED (15 April 2026)

Why Amazon Is Buying Globalstar—and What It Means for Your iPhone

​Oh, like what if a satellite breaks into pieces and they hit other satellites, leading to a cascade of destruction that breaks everything in orbit and leaves the globe perpetually surrounded by flying space trash that cannot be bypassed, with no proven way to remove it? Yes, maybe. It's called the Kessler syndrome, and astronomers have been worried about it happening for decades. It's always been a theory. But now the world is in an era where companies are trying to pump thousands—even a million—satellites into orbit

“That is literally the thing that keeps me awake at night,” says John Barentine, an astronomer and founder of Dark Sky Consulting in Tucson, Arizona. “The sense that we are teetering on the edge of catastrophe, and most people don't understand that.”

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