Over the past three years, SpaceX has deployed thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit as part of its business to beam high-speed internet service from space. But the company’s latest deployment of 49 new satellites after a Feb. 3 launch did not go as planned. As a consequence of a […]
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 9 (Reuters) – A geomagnetic storm triggered by a large burst of radiation from the sun has disabled least 40 of the 49 satellites newly launched by SpaceX as part of its Starlink internet communications network, the company said. The incident was believed to mark the largest […]
A rocket’s-eye view shows a stack of SpaceX Starlink satellites just before orbital deployment. (SpaceX Photo) SpaceX says that most of the satellites it launched last week for its Starlink broadband internet constellation are doomed to fall from orbit due to a solar storm. Based on the company’s analysis, as […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Up to 80% of the Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX last week will soon reenter, or have already done so, because a geomagnetic storm kept the spacecraft from raising their orbits. SpaceX said late Feb. 8 that the 49 satellites it launched Feb. 3 were affected […]
SpaceX revealed it was in the process of losing almost 80 percent of the Starlink satellites it has launched in just five days. In a statement released yesterday, SpaceX said: “Unfortunately, the satellites deployed on Thursday were significantly impacted by a geomagnetic storm on Friday.” A geomagnetic storm occurs when […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Lynk Global satellites have connected with thousands of unmodified smartphones, tablets, internet-of-things devices and vehicles, the Fall Church, Virginia, startup announced Feb. 8. The mobile devices required “zero modifications,” Lynk CEO Charles Miller told SpaceNews. “In fact, these devices did not know they were even participating in […]
The nine-month contract is to process data from SBIRS sensors in highly elliptical orbit WASHINGTON — SciTec won a $5 million contract from the Space Force to develop a software application that analyzes data from U.S. missile-warning satellites, the company announced Feb. 7. The Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), run by […]
A group of astronomers have set up a global force that would take action against the thousands of satellites that are now preventing the study of the night sky. Scientists are finding it increasingly difficult to study space as thousands of satellites forming major systems called megaconstellations leave bright streaks […]