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Starlink will lower the orbits of roughly 4,400 satellites this year as a safety measure, according to engineering VP, Michael Nicolls. In a post on X, Nicolls wrote that the company is "beginning a ...

An image of Starlink-35956, a satellite that suffered an in-orbit anomaly Dec. 17, confirming the spacecraft was largely intact despite generating hundreds of pieces of debris. Credit: Vantor ...

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Illustration of congestion in geostationary orbit. Credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL; CC BY-SA 3.0 Space is rapidly becoming the world’s most congested frontier. What was once a domain of scientific ...

Watch Space.com editor-in-chief Tariq Malik launch (and crash) rockets and planes on Kerbal Space Program 2. FBI sweeps Nancy Guthrie's home, removes wired device in missing person case Rock the ...

Jan 1 (Reuters) - Starlink will begin a reconfiguration of its satellite constellation by lowering all of its satellites orbiting at around 550 km (342 miles) to 480 km over the course of 2026, ...

What just happened? There have been plenty of reports in recent times about near-misses of low Earth orbit satellites – most of them belonging to Starlink. In 2026, Elon Musk's company hopes to reduce ...

This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The ...

Artist's concept of NASA's Pandora mission, which will help scientists untangle the signals from the atmospheres of exoplanets – worlds beyond our solar system – and their stars. Pandora, the latest ...

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