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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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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 …

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on 90th Starlink mission of 2025  Spaceflight Now Launch recap of the SpaceX rocket launch in Cape Canaveral early Tuesday, during supermoon  Florida Today SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida, lands rocket at sea (video)  Space SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch scheduled for Tuesday from Vandenberg SFB  KSBY News SpaceX rocket launch may be visible in Arizona. When, …

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 …