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FCC gives SpaceX “green light” to expand Starlink constellation to 15,000 satellites Space Debris

FCC gives SpaceX “green light” to expand Starlink constellation to 15,000 satellites

SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Jan. 9, 2025, on the Starlink 6-96 mission. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Update Jan. 9, 6:14 p.m. EST (2214 UTC): SpaceX confirms satellite deployment. Adding FCC announcement details. The Federal Communications Commission…
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January 8, 2026
A crew member’s “medical concern” foils a planned spacewalk outside the ISS Space Debris

A crew member’s “medical concern” foils a planned spacewalk outside the ISS

Someone on the International Space Station suffered an unspecified “medical situation” Wednesday, prompting the postponement of a planned spacewalk and raising the possibility of an early return for a portion of the lab’s seven-person crew, NASA said in a statement. NASA has never ordered a medical evacuation from space before,…
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January 8, 2026
Nigeria: Accommodation Space Debris

Nigeria: Accommodation

Faqced with inadequate accommodation as over 30,000 students jostle for about 8,000 bed spaces, the management of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, may approve squatting for students with their colleagues, just as it vowed to sanction those engaged in hostel racketeering. The Dean, Students Affairs, Prof. Musa Obalola, in a…
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January 8, 2026
NASA weighs an earlier end to the Crew-11 mission after a ‘medical situation’ with an ISS crew member postpones first spacewalk of 2026 Space Debris

NASA weighs an earlier end to the Crew-11 mission after a ‘medical situation’ with an ISS crew member postpones first spacewalk of 2026

At center, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Expedition 74 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui assists NASA astronauts Zena Cardman (left) and Mike Fincke (right), the station’s flight engineer and commander respectively, during spacesuit checks inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock. Image: NASA Update Jan. 8, 12:30 a.m. EST…
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January 8, 2026