Tag Archives: satellites

Humanity has a new tool in the fight against space junk — “Space Armor™,” a multi-functional composite that could protect both spacecraft and astronauts. Space Armor is made via a proprietary fiber-to-resin manufacturing method courtesy of the company Atomic-6, which is based in Marietta, Georgia. “Satellites and astronauts are constantly threatened by millions of untrackable, hypervelocity particles in orbit,” states …

Live coverage: Overnight launch planned for 28 more Starlink satellites  Spaceflight Now SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit on 130th Falcon 9 flight of the year  Space SpaceX launches the 11th test flight of its mega Starship rocket with another win  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos WATCH LIVE: SpaceX is launching a rocket from Florida’s Space Coast  WFTV SpaceX …

Satellites recorded the largest ocean swells ever seen from space, highlighting how massive waves can act as storm “messengers,” carrying a storm’s power across entire oceans. Observations from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission allowed scientists to track waves born from powerful storms. These waves, driven by wind, generate swells that carry destructive energy to faraway shores — …

A weak region in Earth’s magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe in the last 10 years. That’s according to data collected by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Swarm satellite constellation over the last 11 years. Swarm has been monitoring a region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly since 2014, and scientists have …

SpaceX scrubs launch 2nd batch of satellites for Space Development Agency constellation  Spaceflight Now SpaceX launches the 11th test flight of its mega Starship rocket with another win  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos Is there a rocket launch today? Here’s a look at the SpaceX schedule from Vandenberg  Yahoo Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 to launch six missions in one …

A weak spot in the Earth’s magnetic field is growing over the South Atlantic Ocean, according to more than a decade’s worth of satellite data collected by scientists.  The magnetic field surrounding Earth protects the planet from cosmic radiation and particles charged by the sun. Scientists believe it is generated by the outer core of the Earth, according to a …

A giant dent in Earth’s magnetic field is continuing to expand, according to the latest data from a trio of satellites monitoring our world. It’s called the South Atlantic Anomaly, stretching across the gulf that separates Africa from South America, and the latest data suggests that it has expanded by roughly half the size of continental Europe since 2014, while …

Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband megaconstellation continues to grow. Twenty-four more Project Kuiper satellites took flight on Monday (Oct. 13), lifting off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 9:58 p.m. EDT (0158 GMT on Oct. 14). Launch was originally scheduled for Thursday evening (Oct. 9), but SpaceX pushed that back by four days. …

SpaceX launches 24 Amazon Kuiper satellites following days of weather delays  Spaceflight Now SpaceX reschedules Amazon’s Kuiper launch for Monday night  Spectrum News 13 SpaceX postpones Amazon satellite launch again, targets Sunday night for Cape Canaveral liftoff  Florida Today SpaceX launches 24 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites to orbit  Space SpaceX knocks out final launch for competitor Amazon  The Daily Gazette Source link

These warnings come as SpaceX, the company behind Starlink, continues expanding its presence in low Earth orbit (LEO). Experts are now questioning the long-term viability of this approach, as aging satellites are purposefully deorbited—and not always harmlessly. The current deployment of Starlink satellites began in 2019, with the goal of creating a global satellite internet network. Since then, SpaceX has …