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The growing number of satellites in orbit could pose a serious environmental threat when they incinerate upon reentry into the atmosphere.

Burning Satellites Could Accidentally Geoengineer the Earth

By Dan Robitzski

According to a recently presented preprint, climate change may be making our space junk problem even worse.

Climate Change May Be Making Space Junk Worse

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers may be able to spot alien technosignatures, including the heat given off by satellite constellations like the one launched by Starlink.

Science & Energy

Scientist: We Should Be Searching for the Alien Version of Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service isn't going to give you a pass for downloading copyright-infringing content online.

SpaceX Could Cut Your Starlink Internet Service If You Pirate Movies

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that orbital debris, to say nothing of still-operational satellite constellations, is impeding astronomers' work.

Science & Energy

Space Junk Is Literally Making the Sky Brighter, Astronomer Say

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell says the Starlink network could provite global connectivity after just five more satellite launches.

Science & Energy

SpaceX Says That in Just Five Launches, It’ll Have Full Global Connectivity

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX successfully landed all three of its Falcon Heavy boosters during the rocket's second launch ever, marking a new milestone in reusable rocketry.

Advanced Transport

SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket For Record Ninth Time

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX is asking US regulators for permission to build out its Starlink broadband internet service for cars, trucks, shipping boats, and aircraft.

SpaceX Plans to Bring Starlink Internet to Cars, Boats, and Planes

By Victor Tangermann

During its latest Starlink satellite launch, SpaceX suffered a rare mishap: one of the boosters didn't stick its landing on the company's drone ship.

SpaceX Rocket Crashes Into Ocean When Landing Fails

By Victor Tangermann

After making its beta available to roughly 10,000 customers, SpaceX is again accepting preorders of its Starlink broadband internet service for $99.

SpaceX Is Now Taking Starlink Preorders

By Victor Tangermann

In a filing with the FCC, SpaceX is petitioning for a Starlink phone service, voice calls, and subsidized plans for low income households.

SpaceX Has Plans to Start a Starlink Phone Service

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk accused Amazon of trying to "hamstring Starlink" for a system that is "at best several years away from operation."

Elon Musk Says Jeff Bezos Is Trying to Ruin Starlink

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX darkened its Starlink satellites, but they're stil blocking and interfering with astronomers' observations of the night sky.

SpaceX’s “Darkened” Satellites Still Messing Up Research, Astronomers Say

By Dan Robitzski

A Japanese startup called Sumitomo Forestry is teaming up with Kyoto University to develop the world's first satellites — that are made out of wood.

A Japanese Startup Is Building Wooden Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

The Starlink "Better Than Nothing Beta" is giving some rural participants better internet connectivity than the vast majority of the U.S.

Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US

By Dan Robitzski

Upon digging through Starlink's terms of service, eagle-eyed beta testers discovered they were signing up for a lot more than they might have thought.

Starlink Terms of Service Demands That Users “Recognize Mars as a Free Planet”

By Victor Tangermann

According to screenshots of emails sent to CNBC, SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service will cost $99 per month.

SpaceX Starlink Satellite Internet Will Reportedly Cost $99 Per Month

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent interview, SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell laid out the company's plans to bring its Starlink broadband satellite technology to Mars.

SpaceX Will Build Starlink-Like Constellation Around Mars, Its President Says

By Victor Tangermann

According to a TIME interview with SpaceX's president and COO Gwynne Shotwell, Starship could be used to help dispose of "dead rocket bodies" in orbit.

SpaceX President: Starship Could Help Pick Up Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

Three percent of SpaceX's Starlink satellites seem to have failed. That's not bad, but it gets dangerous considering how big the constellation will become.

Science & Energy

Three Percent of SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Died

By Dan Robitzski

A Native American tribe in Washington state just got a major internet upgrade, getting early access to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet.

SpaceX Gives Native American Tribe Early Access to Starlink Internet

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of space startup Rocket Lab Peter Beck told CNN that space in Earth's orbit is becoming worryingly congested.

Space Startup CEO Warns That Orbit Is Filling Up With Space Startups

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just won a contract with the military's Space Development Agency to build four satellites that can track missiles like ICBMs.

Science & Energy

The Pentagon Commissioned SpaceX to Build Missile-Tracking Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

Washington state emergency responders were able to get early access to SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband service for regions affected by wildfires.

SpaceX Gives Early Starlink Internet to Towns Destroyed by Wildfires

By Victor Tangermann

Army officials want to upgrade SpaceX's Starlink satellites to serve as a navigational network more precise and secure than GPS.

The US Military Wants Access to SpaceX’s Satellite Constellation

By Dan Robitzski

The dimmer version of SpaceX's Starlink satellites are still too bright in the sky for astronomers to conduct their research.

Science & Energy

SpaceX’s Darker Starlink Satellites Are Still Ruining Astronomers’ Research

By Dan Robitzski

A new report slammed SpaceX's plans to launch more than 30,000 Starlink low-Earth satellites, noting their "extreme" impact on scientific endeavors.

Astronomers Slam SpaceX’s Growing Starlink Satellite Constellation

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon was approved by the Federal Communications Commission to launch 3,326 satellites as part of its Kuiper constellation. That has astronomers worried.

Amazon’s Constellation of 3,236 Satellites Has Astronomers Very, Very Freaked Out

By Victor Tangermann

Recent images taken of the spectacular NEOWISE comet by astrophotographer Daniel Lopez were "completely photobombed by Elon Musk's Starlink satellites."

SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Ruined This Photo of the NEOWISE Comet

By Victor Tangermann

With over 500 Starlink broadband-beaming satellites already in orbit, SpaceX is looking to move swiftly ahead with rolling out its internet service.

SpaceX Is Now Taking Requests for Starlink Beta Testers

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA is preparing to launch the first experimental satellite of its Blackjack network, which would function like a military version of SpaceX's Starlink.

DARPA Is About to Launch a Military Version of SpaceX’s Starlink

By Dan Robitzski

In response to scientists who say SpaceX's Starlink satellites will block astronomical research, CEO Elon Musk suggested launching orbital observatories.

Science & Energy

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Could Launch Orbital Observatories

By Dan Robitzski

As a new video demonstrates, SpaceX's Starlink satellites have been wreaking havoc with astronomical surveys as they become visible to the naked eye.

Ominous Video Shows SpaceX Satellites Cutting Across Sky

By Victor Tangermann

As SpaceX continues to launch more of its Starlink satellites, new research suggests hundreds will be visible from Earth with the naked eye.

Science & Energy

Astronomer: SpaceX Satellite Swarm Will Be Visible With Naked Eye

By Dan Robitzski

Keeping track of an immense and growing amount of objects in Earth's orbit is becoming increasingly difficult and could end in disaster, as NPR reports.

Experts Call for System Preventing Satellite Collisions

By Victor Tangermann

Vanderbilt University law student Ramon Ryan argues in a new paper that the FCC's approval of over 30,000 planned SpaceX satellites could've been unlawful.

Researcher: SpaceX Satellite Plans Break US Environmental Law

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the terminal used to connect to the Starlink internet network will look like "a thin, flat, round UFO on a stick."

Elon Musk: You’ll Connect to Starlink With “UFO on a Stick”

By Kristin Houser

On Monday, SpaceX deployed 60 Starlink satellites, enough to earn the company the title of world's largest commercial satellite operator.

SpaceX Deploys 60 More of Its Controversial Starlink Satellites

By Kristin Houser

Sightings of "strange lights" in the Montana night sky turned out to be SpaceX's Starlink satellites and not UFOs like locals thought.

People Keep Mistaking SpaceX’s Satellites for Alien Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has announced it will coat one of its third batches of Starlink satellites with a special, less reflective coating.

SpaceX: We’re Working to Fix Sky-Killing Starlink Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Detecting killer asteroids could become more difficult for astronomers as SpaceX adds more satellites to its Starlink constellation.

SpaceX’s Satellite Constellation Could Hide Killer Asteroids

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers are finding that the 122 satellites SpaceX has launched so far are already ruining the night sky, showing up as bright trails in observations.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: SpaceX’s Satellites Are Blocking View of Stars

By Victor Tangermann

Not only could SpaceX's satellites interfere with radio wavelengths, they're already proving to be brighter than expected.

Science & Energy

Scientists: SpaceX Satellites Threaten “Astronomy Itself”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has successfully deployed the first 60 Starlink satellites, which after launch will team up with thousands more to beam internet to Earth.

Watch SpaceX Launch 60 Starlink Satellites

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk just sent a tweet out using satellite internet provided by a network of Starlink satellites launched by the space company.

Elon Musk Just Tweeted Using SpaceX Satellite Internet

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX said it didn't do anything to avoid a satellite collision because a software bug prevented it from knowing the risk of a crash had increased.

SpaceX Blames Bug for Decision Not to Avert Satellite Collision

By Kristin Houser

To avoid a collision with one of SpaceX's Starlink satellites, the ESA was forced to perform a first-of-its-kind "collision avoidance manoeuvre."

SpaceX Wouldn’t Move Its Satellite to Avoid a Collision, Says ESA

By Kristin Houser

Amazon has officially filed an application with the Federal Communications Comission (FCC) to launch some 3,236 broadband satellites.

Amazon Wants to Join SpaceX and Launch 3,200 Internet Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

A month after launch, SpaceX confirmed that three of the 60 Starlink satellites it sent into space have failed — and it won't elaborate as to why.

SpaceX Being Sketch(X) About the 3 Starlink Satellites That Failed

By Kristin Houser

The European Space Agency just placed a piece of satellite in an extremely hot plasma wind tunnel to melt it into a ball of liquid metal.

Watch a Satellite Piece Melt Into a Puddle of Metal

By Victor Tangermann

The International Astronomical Union (IAU), an association made up of more than 12,000 members from across the globe, released a statement regarding concerns over SpaceX's new Starlink satellite initiative.

Astronomers Call for Regulation of SpaceX Starlink Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Last week, SpaceX unleashed 60 tiny Starlink satellites to orbit the Earth at just 340 miles. Astronomers are worried they could ruin the night sky.

Astronomers: SpaceX’s New Satellites Are Ruining the Night Sky

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Just Unleashed 60 Starlink Satellites Into Orbit

SpaceX Just Unleashed 60 Starlink Satellites Into Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

When the Starlink network goes live, SpaceX could potentially have the opportunity to restore net neutrality protections.

SpaceX’s Orbital Internet Could Restore Net Neutrality

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX is about to launch the first batch of Starlink satellites. Experts say the artificial constellation could cause 67,000 space collisions per year.

SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Could Make Space a Minefield

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX said Friday that it plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce — an eyebrow-raising move for a company emerging from a record-shattering year.

Surprise Announcement: SpaceX to Lay off 10 Percent of Workforce

By Jon Christian

According to recent FCC filings, SpaceX is planning on orbiting more than 1,500 Starlink satellites at almost half the altitude to keep them safe.

SpaceX Found a Way To Keep Its Satellites From Cluttering Up Space

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 Just Launched the First of 11,925 SpaceX Internet Satellites

Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 Just Launched the First of 11,925 SpaceX Internet Satellites

Spacex May Be Launching Its First Global Internet Satellites Next Week

Spacex May Be Launching Its First Global Internet Satellites Next Week

By Patrick Caughill