## Our Sky Is Closing: A Generational Crisis in Earth's Orbit Imagine a world in 2100 where there is no GPS. Global supply chains have collapsed. There is no high-speed global internet. We have no satellites to warn us of incoming hurricanes or monitor crop failures. This isn't a post-apocalyptic movie. This is the reality of a world **after the Kessler Syndrome**. It’s a catastrophic tipping point, named after NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler, where the density of space debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) becomes so high that a single collision triggers an unstoppable chain reaction. One piece of shrapnel hits a satellite, creating thousands more pieces. Those pieces hit other satellites, creating *millions* more. The result? A permanent, high-velocity shell of shrapnel enveloping our planet, making it impossible to launch new rockets, maintain our global infrastructure, or ever leave our world again. We would be a "prison planet," trapped by our own trash. A...