Published by Sky News, 2 October 2023 Satellite TV provider DISH will pay $150,000 for failing to properly de-orbit its EchoStar-7 satellite, America's Federal Communications Commission says. A company has been fined by the US government for leaving junk in space. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its first space
By Justinas Vainilavičius, Published bycybernews, 19 September 2023 There’s been an uptick in burned Starlink satellites over the summer, according to satellite tracking data. Starlink, a satellite constellation operated by aerospace company SpaceX, lost 212 satellites in the period spanning July 18th and September 18th, data compiled by satellitemap.space shows.
Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris acquired by the Space Observation Radar TIRA of Fraunhofer FHR. (Note the color represents the radar echo intensity, not temperature.) Credit: Fraunhofer FHR By European Space Agency Published by SciTechDaily, 7 September 2023 Aeolus was in orbit around Earth
SBUDNIC, a bread-loaf-sized cube satellite with a drag sail made from Kapton polyimide film, designed and built by students at Brown reentered Earth's atmosphere five years ahead of schedule. Image courtesy of Marco Cross. From Brown University, Published by Phys.org, 24 August 2023 SBUDNIC, built by an academically diverse team
