Orbits degrade over time. A defunct satellite out of propellant has no guarantees to “stay in its lane”. Space debris are already an issue and we’ve only been p

Orbits degrade over time. A defunct satellite out of propellant has no guarantees to “stay in its lane”. Space debris are already an issue and we’ve only been putting things in space ~66 years. Imagine if every ship to ever sail was still afloat and never sank. We’d have thousands of unmanned, uncontrollable vessels ping-ponging around the ocean.