Micro-satellites and the new Space Race: junk overkill.
(Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite launched into Space in 1957.)
As the immature man child billionaire owner of SpaceX via the neurotic twitter feeds, championed that the American economy should open earlier after, what could be considered, was a mild lockdown in the shadow of a viral crisis. So factories (his) and other business can return to normality, has, amongst local State governors, assited in setting off a huge spike in Covid-19 infections throughout California, Texas, Florida and Arizonia. The feverish return to the old normal is taking hold, while the pandemic is revving up into a catastrophic situation for America, prior to the Northern Hemisphere winter. Which could be considered the second wave. Industries across the world are now totally reliant on Central Bank loans and government underwriting, supporting elements of the corporate sector that should have gone broke and dissipated. The crisis has significantly effected the heavily indebted companies, that have been brought back to life by direct lending via the US Federal Reserve's 'junk' bond purchases.
A company called OneWeb, a micro-satellite developer, who filed for bankruptcy protection in March 2020, has been resuscitated by the UK government at the tune of one billion pounds. It was however the association of SpaceX company that has aggressively pushed to create a new space race of micro-satellites, to ascend into the lower and upper atmospheres of Earth, which has astronomers very concerned. With plans to launch tens of thousands of tiny communication satellites to fuel faster social media feeds. The concern, is when these small tiny specs move in front of telescopes, they will interfere with important observations of monitoring the cosmos. However the biggest worry is the amount of space junk floating around, which may cause an irreversible event of satellite Collison, known as the Kessler syndrome.
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