Low-Earth orbit is just 2.8 days from disaster

The phrase "House of Cards" is often linked today with a popular Netflix political series, but its original meaning describes something far more literal: a structure that can collapse easily. That idea is exactly how Sarah Thiele, formerly a PhD student at the University of British Columbia and now a researcher at Princeton, and her colleagues characterize today's massive satellite networks. In a new paper available as a pre print on arXiv, they argue that modern satellite mega con...