‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pileup—causing ripple effects across everything from ...
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Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket launching for 6th time ever soon: Watch it live
Liftoff had been scheduled for 9:25 a.m. ET on Saturday (March 15), but issues at the launch site have pushed things back.
Sidus Space Successfully Launches LizzieSat™-3, Expanding AI-Driven On-Orbit Capabilities
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) (the "Company" or "Sidus"), an innovative, agile space mission enabler, today announced the ...
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Scientists Warn: Greenhouse Emissions Could Push Low Earth Orbit to the Brink of Collapse
The growing release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere could pose a serious threat to the future of space operations, ...
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General Atomics Tested Gray Eagle ER UAS Using Proliferated Low Earth Orbit Satellites
GA-ASI says that Gray Eagle is the only U.S. Army UAS capable of leveraging Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and Low Earth ...
Greenhouse Emissions Threaten The Future of Low Earth Orbit, Scientists Warn
The current state of Earth's climate has no recorded precedent. The consequences of the sheer volume of anthropogenic ...
Climate change, already causing problems on Earth, could soon create a mess for orbiting satellites
A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in ...
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Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse
But most satellites operate in a zone called “low Earth orbit,” between 200 and 2,000 kilometers up, and can take hundreds to ...
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SpaceX Set for Rocket Launch Tuesday Afternoon Carrying Starlink Mission from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, March 18 for a Falcon 9 launch of 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape ...
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Climate Change Might Increase Satellite Collisions, Limiting How Many Can Safely Orbit Earth, Study Finds
Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...
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Greenhouse Gases Will Reduce The Number of Satellites That Can Orbit Safely
Greenhouse gases are eroding the safe carrying capacity for low Earth orbit, a new study concludes. Moreover, the authors ...
Climate change may reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space
MIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways ...