Enlarge / The Dragon SpaceX satellite. China’s ambitious cyber attacks aim to mimic the signals that satellites receive from their operators, tricking them into being taken over or to malfunction. European Space Agency. reader comments 103 with Share this story China is building sophisticated cyber weapons to “seize control” of enemy satellites, rendering them useless ..
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reader comments 81 with Share this story A combination of space junk and a growing constellation of functional satellites like SpaceX’s Starlink have astronomers worried about the potential for orbital materials to interfere with observations. And justifiably so, given that researchers are currently arguing over whether one observation represents one of the farthest supernovae ever ..
Enlarge / The Electron rocket, covered in while protective material, on its side on its launch pad on Wallops Island. John Timmer reader comments 17 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Sunday, RocketLab plans to send its small launch rocket, the Electron, into orbit from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, or MARS. The launch ..
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of low Earth-orbit satellites like those launched by SpaceX and OneWeb. reader comments 52 with 38 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission has a plan to minimize space junk by requiring low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to be disposed no more than five years after being taken out ..
janiecbros | Getty Images reader comments 61 with 34 posters participating Share this story For more than 20 years, the Landsat 7 satellite circled Earth every 99 minutes or so, capturing images of almost all the planet’s surface each 16 days. One of many craft that observed the changing globe, it revealed melting glaciers in ..
Enlarge / Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth’s atmosphere. These events can cause geomagnetic storms. Getty Images | Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library reader comments 143 with 81 posters participating Share this story SpaceX had to ditch most of its latest batch of Starlink satellites because they were disrupted by a geomagnetic storm ..
Enlarge / Greg Wyler in February 2019 when he was at OneWeb. Getty Images | Washington Post reader comments 21 with 18 posters participating Share this story A company led by satellite-industry veteran Greg Wyler says it plans to launch about 100,000 small communication satellites into low Earth orbit. The company, E-Space, yesterday announced that it received ..
Enlarge / A Starlink track running across the Andromeda galaxy. reader comments 177 with 111 posters participating Share this story SpaceX’s Starlink Internet service will require a dense constellation of satellites to provide consistent, low-latency connectivity. The system already has over 1,500 satellites in orbit and has received approval to operate 12,000 of them. And ..
Enlarge / A SpaceX rocket ready for launch. Trevor Mahlmann reader comments 299 with 142 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk has hit back at criticism that his company’s Starlink satellites are hogging too much room in space, and has instead argued there could be room for “tens of billions” of spacecraft in orbits ..
reader comments 394 with 161 posters participating Share this story The head of the European Space Agency has urged the continent’s leaders to stop facilitating Elon Musk’s ambition to dominate the new space economy, warning that the lack of coordinated action meant the US billionaire was “making the rules” himself. Josef Aschbacher, the new director-general ..