Kessler syndrome

The risk that debris in low Earth orbit reaches a density where collisions create more debris faster than it decays, making orbits unusable: a tragedy of the commons in space.

proposed by

• Collision Frequency of Artificial Satellites: The Creation of a Debris Belt writing 1978 [src1][src2]

subject of

• An Ontological Architecture for Orbital Debris Data writing 2015 [src]

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
• https://doi.org/10.1029/JA083iA06p02637