When a defunct Russian satellite hits a SpaceX Starlink unit, who pays? Who cleans up? Nobody knows.
There are 36,500 tracked objects larger than 10cm in orbit. Millions more below tracking threshold. Every collision creates thousands of new fragments. The Kessler Syndrome is no longer theoretical — it's actuarial. Yet space debris has no sovereign owner, no cleanup obligation, and no insurance framework.
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