Image: Shutterstock/Nasa By Bojan Stojkovski, Published by Interesting Engineering, 11 January 2026 China has submitted plans to deploy up to 200,000 satellites into orbit, citing collision risks posed by SpaceX’s rapidly expanding Starlink network. A growing number of Chinese companies are laying the groundwork for an unprecedented expansion of satellite
A composite image showing rows of Starlink satellites awaiting deployment into low Earth orbit in front of a picture of Earth taken from the International Space Station. (Image credit: SpaceX via X) By MIke Wall, Published by Space.com, 2 January 2026 "Lowering the satellites results in condensing Starlink orbits, and
Starlink satellites awaiting deployment into low Earth orbit (Image credit: SpaceX) By Neetika Walter, Published by Interesting Engineering, 1 January 2026 Starlink will lower satellites orbiting 550 km to 480 km in 2026, aiming to increase space safety. Starlink will begin lowering the orbit of its satellite constellation in 2026,
By Sarah Jones, Published by Daily Galaxy, 31 December 2025 A routine mission was derailed when a spacecraft suffered unexpected damage, the consequences were impossible to ignore. Microscopic space debris cracked the window of China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft in November 2025, delaying the crew’s return and triggering the country’s first emergency
Illustration Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld By Jonathan O'Callaghan, Published by New Scientist, 16 December 2025 Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other outage A collision would occur in just 2.8 days if all satellites lost their
Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) could be the next target for the future of satellites. (Image credit: Getty Images) By Sven Bilé, Published by The Conversation, 16 December 2025 But as more and more satellites are launched into LEO…the region's getting a bit crowded. There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting
Paths of Starlink satellites as of Feb 2024. Credit: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio. By Andy Tomaswick, Published by Phys.org, 15 December 2025 A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a
By Jason Rainbow, Published by Space News, 10 December 2025 TAMPA, Fla. — NATO has picked 150 companies from 24 of its member countries to join its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) next year, including more than two dozen with ties to the space sector. Each company
