Michael Nicholls, vice president of Starlink engineering, posted the news on social platform X, announcing the company’s plan ...

Starlink’s Michael Nicolls declares ‘significant reconfiguration’ to be coordinated with regulators, other operators and US ...

SpaceX plans to lower the orbits of about 4,400 Starlink satellites in 2026 to reduce orbital decay time, limit debris risks and improve safety in low Earth orbit.

SpaceX's Starlink is planning a major change to how its satellites orbit Earth, with the goal of making space safer.

SpaceX is preparing a sweeping reshuffle of its Starlink constellation, shifting thousands of satellites into a lower band of low Earth orbit in what amounts to an in‑flight redesign of the network.

Starlink is to lower the orbits of about half its satellite constellation over the course of this year, citing safety ...

SpaceX confirmed that one Starlink satellite recently exploded in orbit, and it is now tumbling to re-enter the planet.

One of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites suffered an anomaly in orbit on Wednesday (Dec. 17) that led to its partial ...

Caption: This graph displays the area-time product summary comparison of the several deorbit devices evaluated for their risk. High-energy collisions can create significant amounts of new and ...

After a successful test phase, the Satellite Orbit DecAy (SODA) service, which was jointly developed by TU Graz and the University of Graz, officially became part of the ESA’s Space Safety Programme ...

Image of the Sun from the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission. The diagram shows the density increase in the atmosphere and the subsequent loss of altitude of a satellite at 490 km – both caused by a ...