An artist's illustration of a satellite crashing back to Earth. (Image credit: Getty Images) By Anthony Cuthbertson, Published by The Independent, 9 October 2025 An average of one to two Starlink satellites are deorbiting each day in 2025 Up to four satellites from Elon Musk’s massive Starlink constellation are falling
Leaving a fiery arc in its wake, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lofts 53 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 27, 2022. Credit: SpaceX/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) By Leah Yananton, Published by Santa Barbara Independent, 30 September 2025 California's Coastline Is a Public
Rendering of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) - NASA/JPL-Caltech By Nicolas Menier, Published by African in Space, 28 September 2025 NASA is facing backlash after reportedly being ordered to destroy a fully operational satellite that plays a crucial role in monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere. Imagine a perfectly good, high-tech spacecraft
A string of SpaceX Starlink satellites pass over an old stone house in Kansas. Photograph: Reed Hoffmann/AP By Jonathan Yerushalmy, Published by The Guardian, 26 September 2025 Astronomers are warning that the proliferation of satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink, are making their work harder than it’s ever been Donald Trump
SpaceX's Starship rocket launches from Starbase during its second test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on November 18, 2023.Photograph: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/Getty Images By Guardian Staff and Agencies, Published by The Guardian, 15 September 2025 FAA ruled to have satisfied obligations in granting approval for expanded SpaceX operations next to
Two Falcon Heavy side boosters stand on Landing Zones 1 and 2 (background and foreground) after returning from space in October 2023. Credit: SpaceX By Stephen Clark, Published by Ars Technica, 4 September 2025 There are no Falcon Heavy launches this year, so now's the time for SpaceX to act.
By Ethan Siegal, Published by Big Think, 20 August 2025 NASA’s 1958 charter’s top priority was, “the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space.” Is this how it ends? When NASA was founded back in 1958, its charter explicitly declared “that activities in space should be
An artist's rendering shows NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) - NASA/JPL-Caltech By Andrew Freedman, Published by CNN, 13 August 2025 NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October, sources inside and outside of the
