Satellite crashes will plague us unless we manage space traffic better | MIT Technology Review

Satellite crashes will plague us unless we manage space traffic better | MIT Technology Review: There were plenty of unusual things about this week’s satellite kerfuffle between the European Space Agency and SpaceX—the public statement released by ESA, initial reports that SpaceX declined to move its Starlink satellite despite being warned about a risk of collision, and SpaceX’s claim it didn’t respond because a glitch caused it to miss the…