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From next week, a campaign to launch thousands of new satellites will begin in earnest, offering high-speed internet access from space. Astronomers are finding that satellites are so dazzling they are competing with their study of the stars. Photo: AFP But …

Residents in northern Montana reported a string of strange lights dotting the sky. What looked like UFOs from an alien invasion has turned out to be another consequence of SpaceXs Starlink satellite constellation. SpaceX launched 60 satellites into orbit bac…

Image copyrightMarco Langbroek/SatTrackCam LeidenImage caption Astronomers are concerned that the bright satellites could hinder their research Astronomers are warning that their view of the Universe could be under threat. From next week, a campaign to l…

Its time to look ahead to the coming year and all things that will be happening in space exploration. With new missions to Mars, a probe returning to Earth with samples taken from an asteroid, and even more batches of Elon Musks Starlink satellites going into…

Boeing's ST-100 Starliner was supposed to make it to the International Space Station as the company's first test launch prepping for human space travel. Instead it became the first U.S. space capsule made for human use to land on continental U.S. soil instead…

Boeing's uncrewed Starliner before launch. NASA Space is hard. That's a refrain we keep hearing. It applies to Boeing's uncrewed Starliner mission, which launched Friday morning, but won't make it to the International Space Station as planned.  SpaceX foun…

NASA officials have been careful not to promise a launch date yet, saying that the schedule depends on how well Starliner performs during its flight test and how long it takes to ensure safety for its astronauts. (The losses of the space shuttles Challenger i…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: When Amazon confirmed it was planning to launch 3,236 broadband internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit, much of the media reported it as if it were a done deal -- the latest, inevitable step in t…

Amazon is ramping operations for its Kuiper project, its forthcoming high-speed satellite internet product, with a new HQ and R&D facility. Kuiper will provide internet connectivity from a small satellite constellation operating in low Earth Orbit to unde…

The satellite Kacific1 is scheduled to begin commercial operations in Q1 of 2020. Satellite operator Kacific’s first satellite Kacific1 was launched successfully into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7.10pm Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) on December 1…