Die Weltraummüllkrise braucht eine Recyclingrevolution

Clickbait title, article’s subtitle says there is no crisis:
> Orbital junk will become a crisis if we don’t act soon

It also presents facts without important context:
> A decade ago humanity launched around 200 objects into space per year. Now we launch more than 2,600, with no prospects for slowing down.

Of that 2,600, 2,000 were starlink satellites that deorbit at the end fo their lifetime, and even the ones that malfunction and can’t deorbit will fall back to earth within 5 years.

> The region is already so crowded that working satellites run the risk of colliding with bits of garbage from previous generations of spacecraft. Even the International Space Station often has to adjust its orbit to dodge debris.

This is true, but again with a healthy dose of sensasionalism. It really isn’t „so crowded“, and there is no attempt to quantify the risk of collision (is it 1-in-1,000, or 1-in-1,000,000).

We definitely need to reduce the amount of space debris out there, but it’s not a crisis, and won’t be for a significant time either.