Donald J. Kessler

American NASA astrophysicist who showed in 1978, with Burton Cour-Palais, that colliding satellites could create a self-sustaining debris belt.

authored

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

[?] Unconfirmed

• start: Year of birth from Wikidata only.

Sources

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