Starlink’s got company — and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen | Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite mega constellation is just the beginning.

At some point in the next hundred years I picture some sort of a space shuttle with a giant cow catcher net type thing in the front of it plowing the skies picking up tons of dead satellites

Kuiper is more likely to fail before it has any chance of taking of. I don’t understand why the media usually makes it sound like Kuiper is a legitimate competitor. It is not, not even close.

OneWeb is an actual competitor that is fully operational, and so is O3b to some degree. Other upcoming constellations are AST SpaceMobile and the Chinese SpaceSail constellation. All of these have a significant number of satellites in orbit already.

But Kuiper? They only just launched their first set of experimental operational satellites. They have major problems with getting satellite production up. They are behind the curve by almost all metrics you can think of.