Very low Earth orbit satellites are moving from engineering curiosity to strategic priority, promising sharper images, faster ...

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

( NewsNation) — SpaceX will be moving around 4,400 satellites to a lower orbit in 2026, according to an X post from Michael ...

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.

A routine piece of SpaceX’s vast internet constellation has turned into a real-time stress test of how the world handles broken hardware in low orbit. After a serious malfunction, a Starlink satellite ...

Starlink will begin lowering the orbit of its satellites from around 550 kilometers to roughly 480 kilometers throughout 2026, SpaceX's vice president of Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, said on ...

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 ...

Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now imagine that they are spread out over the entire Earth’s inhabited areas. Although still a large number, it is absolutely ...