Six percent of Starlink’s LEO constellation burns in upper atmosphere, releasing irreversible heavy metal pollution ...

Low-orbiting satellites, including Starlink, can reflect sunlight in the night sky during ... conditions — not when the satellites have been recently launched, are being de-orbited or going through a ...

Letting AST launch its proposed spacecraft without addressing the collision risk 'would be irresponsible' and potentially ...

SpaceX’s Starlink unit is seeing some issues with its new generation of satellites and will be de-orbiting some recently launched machines. At the same time, the company is requesting the FCC to ...

SpaceX said those satellites will naturally de-orbit ... SpaceX has launched a total of 775 Starlink satellites. ... a 3 percent failure rate would mean more than 1,200 dead satellites orbiting in ...

The deorbiting of Starlink satellites is a commonplace task for SpaceX; the Elon Musk-led company has already initiated the disposal of 406 units from the nearly 6,000 satellites launched to date.

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday that disrupted customers around the globe. The network has now mostly ...

Starlink satellites generally operate below 600 km. SpaceX said that of the almost 6,000 satellites launched by SpaceX, it has to-date initiated controlled de-orbits on 406. Seventeen of those are ...

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The satellites will follow a safe, circular, and controlled lowering operation that should take approximately six months for most of the vehicles. It’s a small fraction of the 5,828 Starlink ...

A recent FCC authorization approved the launch of 7,500 more satellites and a nodding sentiment in the company’s plan to launch 30,000 orbiting internet boxes. A feat, that at this rate, they ...

According to SpaceNews, the oldest Starlink satellites still in orbit are from 2019/2020. The company has said the de-orbiting won’t impact its broadband services. KSAT's new ground station in ...