Kessler and Cour-Palais publish the collision cascade argument

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1. Story
2. Two NASA researchers set out, in the Journal of Geophysical Research, the statistical case that collisions between artificial satellites would themselves become the dominant source of new debris, producing a belt of fragments around the Earth. The paper was written when the catalogued population was a small fraction of its present size and no accidental collision between two intact satellites had ever occurred; its argument was entirely prospective, and it took thirty-one years for the collision it described to happen.
3. Knowledge
4. Orbital debris
5. The Kessler collision cascade
6. Kessler and Cour-Palais publish the collision cascade argument
7. Connections
8. The Kessler collision cascade
9. Orbital debris
10. Orbital debris
11. Collision Frequency of Artificial Satellites: The Creation of a Debris Belt
12. Kessler and Cour-Palais publish the collision cascade argument
13. Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 collide
14. Low Earth orbit broadband constellations
15. Low Earth orbit broadband constellations
16. The Kessler collision cascade
17. The FCC five-year post-mission disposal rule
18. Kessler and Cour-Palais publish the collision cascade argument
19. A Chinese anti-satellite test destroys the Fengyun-1C weather satellite
20. The UN adopts voluntary space debris mitigation guidelines
21. Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 collide
22. The first sixty Starlink satellites are deployed
23. A Russian anti-satellite test destroys Cosmos 1408
24. The FCC adopts a five-year post-mission disposal rule
25. Evidence
26. Sets out the collision-cascade mechanism by which a debris population becomes self-sustaining above a threshold density. V55 verification basis: the paper was not retrieved in this session; the issue and page range are deliberately omitted rather than stated from memory, and only the volume and year are given.