Observers are encouraged to glance to the southeast to east, venturing out 3 to 10 minutes after the supposed time of launching. The rocket will curve over the coast as a white light with a glowing ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 has said its satellites are powered by ion engines that can maneuver them around in space to avoid collisions. And when those engines die off, the satellites will naturally de-orbit and ...

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 ...