There are a lot of different satellites orbiting the Earth. This shouldn’t come as a surprise since humanity has been putting them up there ever since Sputnik launched in 1957. The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) maintains an index that states that there are currently 12,712 objects in orbit around the planet. That’s a lot of metal drifting up above the atmosphere.  There is a good amount of space in Earth’s orbit, but satellites move around, and
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