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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If you had to guess how many Starlink satellites burn up in Earth’s atmosphere on an average day, how many would you pick? This isn’t a trick question – SpaceX is deorbiting about one or two satellites daily, and that number is only going to grow. What that means for our planet isn’t entirely clear, says Harvard astrophysicist and space …
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Below the Sky/Shutterstock Starlink,a division of SpaceX, provides satellite internet around the world. It is ideal for those who live in rural areas as connection speeds are often improved over what local companies offer. It’s also useful for travelers who want to take their internet with them on the road. Instead of …
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Watch from multiple locations as a Starlink satellite reenters Earth’s atmosphere, burning up over California, on September 25, 2025. Currently, there are 1 to 2 Starlink satellites falling back to Earth each day. Soon there will be more. Starlink satellites are falling It might not be long before you look up and see a fiery, slow-moving object streaking across your …
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Amateur astronomers and photographers from around Australia were invited to submit their out of this world photos for Central West Astronomical Society’s annual astrophotography competition, the David Malin awards. The winning images are now showing at the CSIRO’s Parkes Observatory visitors centre Source link
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The western part of North America has been treated to an unofficial light show over the last week or so. People in California and Canada have spotted what look like meteorites falling from the sky, but it’s not a space rock that is burning up in the atmosphere—it’s just a sign someone is going to have a slightly slower internet …
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MILAN – A report from Italy’s space policy office questioned whether the country is underrepresented in the IRIS² program, the European Union’s planned public-private communication constellation for low and medium earth orbit, while acknowledging SpaceX has offered to provide Starlink services for the country. Combined, the two points raised new questions about Italy’s position on Starlink. Those conversations come just months before …
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the dusk sky over southern California on Sunday (Sept. 28) as it carried a new stack of 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The evening launch at 10:04 p.m. EDT (0204 GMT on Sept. 29 or 7:04 p.m. PDT local time) from Vandenberg Space Force Base successfully reached space in just under …
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SpaceX launched two dozen more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit this morning. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink craft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s central coast today at 12:26 a.m. EDT (0426 GMT; 9:26 p.m. on Sept. 25 local California time). About 8.5 minutes later, the Falcon 9’s first stage touched down on …
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