Space sustainability is essential because the exponential growth of objects in orbit makes space increasingly dangerous and threatens the critical infrastructure that supports modern human life.

“it's growing exponentially the number of launches the number of of things that we're putting up in especially near orbit near earth orbit and we just want to you know have a an environment where it doesn't become too dangerous to launch the satellites that are so key to our humanness”

Space sustainability involves designing and operating satellites so that their missions do not prevent future generations from safely using space.

“space sustainability means that as satellite designers and operators and regulators we check to see that at the end of the operational use of a satellite to monitor the weather or to make sure we have communication systems that we make sure that the next generation of satellites and those in many ye”