By Matthew Ceith, Published by GiantFreakinRobot, 13 September 2022 A newly launched SpaceX satellite named Blue Walker 3 is likely going to be visibly brighter than any star in the sky. As the 21st Century space race between billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, as well as the United
By Elizabeth Howell, Published by Space.com, 2 September 2022 Spaceport America and other private space launch facilities worldwide have a new entrant to the market: Canada, which aims to fly 'green' rockets in 2023. Spaceport America is getting a Canadian competitor. A private Canadian rocket facility aims to send clean-tech
By Natasha May, Published by the Guardian, 1 August 2022 Astrophysicist Brad Tucker says he often gets calls from people who think they’ve found space junk but the scorched metal found by two farmers is ‘very real’ The Australian Space Agency is investigating space debris found in farmland in the
By Mark Piesling, Published by the BBC, 15 July 2022 Rocket launches are an integral part of our 21st-Century world. But how do we stop their polluting exhausts accelerating climate change? The Kazakh Steppe is a vast area of grassland that stretches from northern Kazakhstan into Russia. It is home
By Caroline Delbert, Published by Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2022 Black carbon in the atmosphere is like dressing Earth in a black shirt on a sunny day. A new study shows what will happen if spaceflight increases by a factor of ten.This estimate is in line with the trajectory of
By Tim Baker, Published by Sky News, 27 June 2022 Chemicals which damaged the ozone layer were banned in the 1980s by the Montreal Protocol, and since then the protective shield has started to replenish. But the services being touted by Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could threaten
By Will Lockett, Published by Medium, 20 June 2022 Rockets will never be environmentally friendly We know we must be living through a revolutionary time in history when billionaires are the ones pushing the frontiers of space rather than the government. For the most part, these billionaires seem to be
By Passant Rabie, Published by Gizmodo, 17 June 2022 SpaceX's next generation of Starlink satellites could pose an even greater threat to astronomical observations. Unobstructed views of space are increasingly at risk as SpaceX builds out its Starlink megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. And with the company’s plans to deploy
