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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 …

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 …

An amazing new video shows flashes of sunlight sparkling off a batch of SpaceX satellites, with a green aurora glowing just below. NASA astronaut Don Pettit, an accomplished amateur photographer, captured the stunning “train” of SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites during his recent mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The aurora was produced by solar particles slamming into Earth’s atmosphere. …

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth, with up to four burning up in the atmosphere each day, according to space trackers. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told EarthSky that he has recorded “an average of between one to two Starlink satellites deorbiting each day in 2025.” That number, he said, could climb …

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 …

Astronaut Don Pettit captured a Starlink train in Earth’s orbit. Astronaut Don Pettit splashed back down to Earth in April, and he is still “throttling down” from his six-month voyage on board the International Space Station — and that includes sifting through the troves of videos and photos he captured while in orbit. He recently shared a video on his …

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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