Space Debris

SpaceX plans to leverage its experience with the Starlink constellation for its proposed orbital data center constellation of up to one million satellites. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX is seeking Federal Communications Commission approval for a satellite constellation of unprecedented scale intended to function as an orbital data center. In…

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Four astronauts will soon travel beyond low Earth orbit and fly around the Moon on Artemis II, a mission that will test NASA’s systems and hardware for human exploration of deep space.  Since June 2023, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen have been…

The agreement would enable satellite operators to access an in-orbit data relay service through RBC Signals’ established commercial channels. Credit: RBC Signals TAMPA, Fla. — Apolink has partnered with ground segment provider RBC Signals to resell the startup’s proposed in-orbit relay services, aiming to fill connectivity gaps when satellites are…

Monika Luabeya Katherine Schauer Jan 30, 2026 Deep Space Station 15, one of the 112-foot antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks skyward, with the stars of the Milky Way overhead, in September 2025. Goldstone is part of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), which operates…

At first, they might not seem like much of a threat: weather balloons, filled with helium or hydrogen, carrying bundles of cigarettes from Belarus. But as the number of these balloons crossing into NATO airspace has multiplied — including two major incursions this week into Lithuania and Poland that forced…

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A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 17-19 mission launches from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Jan. 29, 2026. This mission marked the sixth launch of 2026 from the Vandenberg spaceport and test range. Image: U.S Space Force photo by 2nd Lt. Andrew…

Photo Credit: Napster Napster has now unveiled new AI-powered app experiences to “bring AI creations and video companions to mobile devices” amid its broader push into the AI space. Napster—once a peer-to-peer music-sharing platform turned streamer, now a self-proclaimed innovation company “powering the next generation of embodied and agentic AI”—announced…