Comment This will become space junk (Score 1) 69
Are all these satellites going to sit there forever when obsolete? They will cause increasing reflection effects; some may be blackened but that will probably degrade slowly. Unless they fall into the atmosphere but has anyone evaluated what the end effects of these things falling are?
In the same way that we have been filling the land and oceans with our own junk, this is increasingly spreading into space. Now this has moved on from nations launching their own limited numbers of comparitively large satellites to competing swarms of small satellites.
Precursor - copper needles for the military - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...