#Satellites

Object 4 decayed out of a 300km parking orbit while 15 of its batch-mates slowly climbed toward operational altitude.

SpaceX won a $4.16 billion contract to build missile-tracking satellites for President Trump’s Golden Dome system. The deal expands the company’s central role in a multi-layered defense architecture that blends sensors, interceptors and AI processing.…

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a preflight ground test in Cape Canaveral, Florida

How do you maintain spacecraft 22,000 miles away? DARPA wants to find out with the first launch of the dexterous, deep-space robot program as soon as this summer.

Many companies are set on launching ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites that will provide internet connections

Instead of running silent and deep, most satellites easily stand out against the blackness of space.

The rival carriers will pool resources to improve satellite capacity and boost connectivity in underserved areas.

From Engadget Full RSS Feed: Google is reportedly considering working with SpaceX on orbital data centers

From Ars Technica: Starlink shuts down its GPS-style cheat code. Researchers may unlock it anyway.

Scientists are deeply concerned about SpaceX's recent proposal to launch one million satellites into orbit around Earth. Their concerns range from a loss of the natural night sky and our access to space, to the environmental impact on our atmosphere.

A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds form. A “lonely” hot Jupiter — typically found without nearby companions — is sharing its system with a smaller mini-Neptune tucked…

From Gizmodo: Composite Artemis II Animation Shows Just How Much Stuff Is in Low Earth Orbit

With the launch of the first 16 satellites, Russia begins construction of a network for satellite internet that aims to cover the entire country by 2030. But getting there won’t be easy.

From Independent RSS Feed: ‘Whatever Russia is testing, it’s sophisticated’: Satellites pass within 3 metres of each other

The Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the United States military in the 1970s, but it wasn’t long before civilians all over the planet started using it. By the early 2000s the …

From Dev.to - datascience: How the Gannon G5 Solar Storm Pushed the World’s Largest Satellite Constellation to Its Limits

Communication with satellites often involves the use of high-gain directional antennas coupled with careful positioning to find and track the target. With a geostationary satellite the mount is eit…

Extremely bright satellites and megaconstellations could make the night sky up to three times brighter than it is now, a new study warns. This would seriously hinder astronomical imaging devices, like the enormous camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.