巨型星座是否正在让近地轨道陷入失控的卡俄斯？

本文探讨了卫星巨型星座对近地轨道环境构成的潜在威胁。伯明翰大学的专家在最新论文中指出，若管理不当，这些星座可能导致太空环境失控，甚至对地球造成严重影响。

It seems the overwhelming majority of the time when we write about satellite megaconstellations, it’s as a warning. That’s not because they aren’t useful, but because they hold the potential to completely destroy our access to space if not managed properly, and possibly cause a whole bunch of Earth-based devastation as well. So it probably won’t come as a surprise when there is yet another paper from a leading expert on space debris pointing out the potential hazards of the latest crop of satellite megaconstellations - which is exactly what a new paper, available in pre-print on arXiv by Hugh G. Lewis of the University of Birmingham, does.