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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Experts believe the nascent satellite market will be shaped by a variety of forces as it develops and expands.

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 ...

Starlink, which has launched over 3,000 LEO satellites, uses a de-orbiting process that can be completed in months. But there is controversy over the FCC's authority to implement the rule and a ...

It’s not a perfect solution, though, because about 3 percent of Starlink satellites fail to function after deployment, making them de facto space debris. Filed Under: Business , Space , StarLink ...

SpaceX successfully launched Wednesday a new batch of Starlink satellites into orbit to further its mission to expand Internet access to the global population in now more than 200 space missions.

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 ...