Space literacy

‘Activity in space is exploding.’

“It’s going to be like
an interstate highway
at rush hour in a snowstorm,
with everyone driving
much too fast.
Except that there are
multiple interstate highways
crossing each other
with no stoplights.”

Space: its power and
its vulnerability.

Space: once so dazzlingly pure
is now in a tangle.

Commercial, scientific, military.

The gold rush in space - .
dual use - civilian | military.

Who controls space,
will control the Earth.

Look into the night sky
and you’ll soon spot
fast moving unblinking
points of light.

Thousands of satellites
need to go up every year
needing hundreds of rockets.

Satellites travelling solo
or in vast arrays - constellations -
travel(ling) in trains
of about twenty satellites;
interrupting astronomers and
our relationship with the skies.
Eight thousand active satellites
orbiting earth, light(ing) up
the night sky.

Dangerous clouds
linger in low-earth orbit.

Nuclear weapons in orbit
or on celestial bodies.

The mass of space junk -
defunct -
left in orbit.

Jamming, frying, hacking
in the pipeline.

Space based services
are everywhere - always,
ubiquitous, and critical.

Fears,
for the
near-earth
environment.

Now and then I stumble across an article on a topic that I’ve not thought about - ever. A recent story by Luke Slattery - ‘Watch this space’ was one such stumble.

“The final frontier is a free-for-all and the consequences on Earth could be dire”.

I FOUND this piece in Slattery's story.

Dream intentionally - while you’re awake