If you detonated a grenade near private property within moments you would probably learn a lesson in personal accountability.
Unfortunately for entrepreneurs, the same can not be said for outer space.
While the private industry can be blamed for some of the mess, space is littered with hundreds of thousands of objects capable of puncturing and destroying resources and disrupting communications.
And this problem would be much more manageable if it were not for two problems.
Since day one, the State has attempted to militarize the cosmos, filling it - at whatever cost - with a smorgasbord of weapons and spy satellites. And in the process, they have cluttered the sky with countless pieces of potentially damaging widgets that every resident of space must precisely track and counter against.
For instance, earlier this year the Chinese military shot down an old satellite, sending up to 300,000 pieces of shrapnel through space. As a result, satellite operators must now spend extra resources trying to maneuver their own property away from the deleterious matter.
In addition to destroying property (private and public), various militaries have permanently altered the Van Allen belt (Project Starfish) and unnecessarily placed humanity in harms way through nuclear experimentation (1 2).
And it can continue to get away with it due to the fact that it is not accountable to anyone, and is exceedingly difficult to hold it responsible for its actions.
Spatial disorders
Interestingly enough, over the past several decades, there have been numerous pieces of self-imposed legislation proposed to prevent and curb the spread of weapons in space.
Most notably is the Outer Space Treaty currently wandering around the halls of the UN.
While it enunciates peace as the modus operandi for all nations in space, it also places objects such as the Moon under the legal principle of “res communis� – that these objects belong to everyone. In terms of private property and commercial development, this of course creates a problem.
It is through this communal means (e.g. Moon Treaty) that the State has attempted and succeeded in preventing private ownership of space.
As a result, you have scenarios such as the above continually play out because there is a tragedy of the commons because no one can own “space” in space. [Note: in practice no one has thus far been directly prevented from mining the Moon, asteroids, etc.]
The easiest solution for this would be simply to enforce the principle of homesteading, a familiar concept that has been successfully used on both land and sea for millennium (first come, first served).
In some ways this has been practiced by many private firms (such as telecom providers) over the past several decades, however, organizations like the military impair its de facto status.
[Note: Earth is not the only planet to feel the uncalculated wrath of the State; see also "Why Socialism Causes Pollution"]