Six percent of Starlink’s LEO constellation burns in upper atmosphere, releasing irreversible heavy metal pollution ...

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.

SpaceX still has nearly 2,000 Starlink satellites orbiting Earth and providing internet service to remote corners of the world. GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE ...

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 ...

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.

A Starlink satellite has a lifespan of approximately five years before de-orbiting, according to the company. When the technology is no longer serviceable, it is destroyed while reentering the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bulking up Starlink's megaconstellation has more than doubled the number of satellites orbiting around the planet: satellite tracking website "Orbiting Now" shows that there are currently 10,845 ...

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 ...

Seventeen of those are currently non-maneuverable and described as passively decaying while “well-tracked”, while the rest are in controlled descent or have already de-orbited. According to SpaceNews, ...