🌿 Environment Jun 13, 2026 · By Bob Berwyn

A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?

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The surge in satellites brings pollution and risks of repeating destructive colonial practices, experts warn.By Bob BerwynThe starry night sky has always anchored humanity’s sense of place in a vast universe. It’s a map guiding travelers, a calendar for migrations and harvests, a wellspring of stories. But a surge of commercial satellite launches into the upper fringes of Earth’s atmosphere threatens the relationship between people and the celestial commons by crowding the night sky and pollutin

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