Chilling space crisis threatens the world as satellite swarm

When it all begins, we’ll be five days and 12 hours from disaster. But that unstoppable calamity would unfold over the course of decades. Some 600km above Earth is a rapidly intensifying cloud of satellites. They’re already indispensable. They enable our smartphones to navigate, research, and think for us. They control remote-controlled farming and mining machinery. They watch the ground to analyse everything from bugs to floods. More

(Source: News.com.au - May 5)