Imagine a piece of space debris the size of a hockey puck slams into a Starlink satellite at about 10 kilometres per second. The kinetic energy is equivalent to two kilograms of TNT, or a fully-loaded ...

As low-Earth orbit becomes more crowded, the risk of orbital collisions is on the rise, especially when those satellites lose the ability to avoid each other, or maneuver out of the path of space junk ...