In 2022, the new space race will get more heated, crowded and dangerous – By Eric Mack (CNET) / January 2, 2022
The number of active satellites has more than quadrupled in the last decade, and the race to space is only getting started.
This story is part of The Year Ahead, CNET’s look at how the world will continue to evolve starting in 2022 and beyond.
Over the past few years, the night sky has changed more rapidly than at any time in human history, and the trend will continue in 2022 as our relationship with the space beyond our planet’s atmosphere grows more intimate. But there are consequences that come with changing relationships. This holds true even for something as seemingly benign as how our species interacts with the cold, dead vacuum behind the blue sky above us.
In early December, my small town held a nighttime holiday festival where hundreds gathered on our historic plaza to count down the lighting of a huge tree. Minutes after the three-story pine burst out of the darkness into a new state of multicolored glowing glory, a friend pointed up at the clear New Mexico night sky.
“What’s that? Reindeer? Wait… no, seriously, what is that?”
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