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SpaceX has lost contact with one of its broadband satellites, which is now falling toward Earth due to an unspecified and seemingly mysterious anomaly. The company revealed that a Starlink satellite ...

Abstract: In the context of in-orbit assembly, modular building blocks offer the advantage of distributed launches. After the orbit-injection, the overall motion control requires the individual ...

Scientists warn that Earth may have only a narrow window of less than three days to avert a cascading satellite disaster if a powerful solar storm disrupts spacecraft operations in low Earth orbit. A ...

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration On a recent mid-November evening, at precisely 7:12 p.m., a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

Simulations suggest that satellite streaks could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth’s weather. A team of researchers modeled plans that could put about ...

The CRASH Clock is a new metric for measuring the risks of satellite congestion in low-Earth orbit. Its calculations are disturbing. Reading time 2 minutes Last week, a Chinese spacecraft passed ...