Elon Musk’s Starlink company have created fresh fears over the theoretical Kessler Syndrome, after satellites started falling from the sky. The internet company, owned by the billionaire business mogul, uses a network of thousands of small satellites in low Earth orbit to provide internet all over the world. The technology has undoubtedly been revolutionary for people in hard-to-reach places, where …
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One to two Starlink satellites plummet through Earth’s atmosphere daily in 2025, burning up like expensive shooting stars nobody asked for. Your internet connectivity dreams are literally raining down on you, and this is just the beginning of what happens when tech billionaires treat orbital space like prime real estate in a gold rush. SpaceX’s Satellite Assembly Line SpaceX has …
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers detected the anomaly in data from the original GRACE Satellites, which were active between 2002 and 2017. . | Credit: NASA/JPL Satellites detected a strange gravity signal off the coast of Africa nearly 20 years ago, suggesting something unusual had happened deep …
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Asteroid 2025 TF flew past Earth at an altitude similar to that of the International Space Station, but was not spotted by astronomers until hours after it was gone. Photo courtesy European Space Agency Oct. 8 (UPI) — International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not …
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Satellites detected a strange gravity signal off the coast of Africa nearly 20 years ago, suggesting something unusual had happened deep within the planet to distort its gravitational field, according to a recent study. The large gravitational anomaly lasted for about two years over the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It peaked in January 2007, the same month Steve Jobs announced the …
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched for the 29th time on Tuesday (Oct. 7), one shy of the company’s reuse record. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 28 of the company’s Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Tuesday at 11:54 p.m. EDT (0354 GMT; 8:54 p.m. local California time). The rocket’s first stage returned to …
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Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Up to four satellites from Elon Musk’s massive Starlink constellation are falling to Earth every day, according to space trackers. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the US, …
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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Elon Musk’s race to dominate our planet’s orbit with his satellite constellations is creating tons of space junk — enough of it, in fact, that we might want to start looking up. According to storied Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, there are now one or two of these Starlink …
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SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early this morning (Oct. 7). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at 2:46 a.m. EDT (0646 GMT). The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth as planned about 8.5 minutes later, touching down in the Atlantic …
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