With thousands of planned spacecraft launches—microsat and cubesat constellations, in addition to heavier satellites, rockets, and spaceships with rovers and human cargo—astronomers are warning that our view of the sky, and our ability to research the cosmos, is under threat.
A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).
All captured fields
rank
384
section
Space and Off-Planet Trends
subject
Crowded Skies
page
353
confidence
medium
note
Title from the contents list in the SlideShare transcript of the publisher upload; order and section from contents page numbers. Quote added 2026-10-02 from the full slide transcript of the publisher upload (SlideShare, Wayback capture of the newer page format); source_url points at the section that holds the page.