The LEO Insurance Cliff: Counter-Space vs. Roaming
In one week of December 2025, a Starlink satellite shed hundreds of debris fragments and AP reported that two NATO intelligence services think Russia is designing a weapon to fill Starlink's orbit with pellets. The two events were unrelated, and that is the point: the threat to low-orbit broadband is anything too small to track. Here is the physics, the insurance math, and what changed after the US admitted to weapons in orbit.
