Space Infrastructure Alters Earth Life

Space systems (satellite imaging, GPS, global comms) do more than inform policy: they change land use, supply chains and human movement in ways that alter ecological conditions and evolutionary pressures on species from microbes to large mammals. Treating space assets as environmental drivers highlights the need to include orbital policy in conservation, climate and biodiversity planning. — If true, space policy becomes an environmental and biosecurity issue, requiring cross‑agency rules that account for how sensing, connectivity and logistics reshape habitats and evolutionary selection.