There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope ...
The company revealed that a Starlink satellite experienced an anomaly on Wednesday that led to a complete loss of ...
On December 17, Starlink experienced an anomaly on satellite 35956, resulting in loss of communications with the vehicle at 418 km. The anomaly led to venting of the propulsion tank, a rapid decay in ...
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The Astronomical Problem of Space Junk

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...
The satellites, the 15th group of low-orbit hardware in China's State-owned internet network, were lifted by a Long March 6A ...
Two Chinese satellites have rendezvoused with one another more than 20,000 miles above the Earth in what analysts believe is the first high-altitude attempt at orbital refueling. China’s Shijian-21 ...
An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications including broad ...