Taiwan’s Own ‘Starlink’ Satellite Network Under Development; Aims To Build 700 Ground Stations Across The Country

By Ashish Dangwal, Published by The Eurasian Times, 4 January 2023 Taiwan appears to be speeding up preparations to create its own version of the Starlink satellite network, focusing on the significance of having an operational command and communication platform in a war-like situation. The Taiwanese government is now working

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China To Blast A Whopping 13,000 Satellites Into Space; Its Gigantic Guowang Project Sparks Anxiety In The West

By Sakshi Tiwari, Published by The Eurasian Times, 30 January 2023 China’s ambitious ‘mega constellation’ of up to 13,000 satellites that would operate in low Earth orbit, akin to SpaceX Starlink, has raised snooping concerns, said a recent report of Daily Mail. The network is reported to be a part

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SpaceX preparing to start Starlink Gen2 launches this month

By Jason Rainbow, Published by SpaceNews, 19 December 2022 TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX could start launching second-generation Starlink satellites in the coming weeks to add more capacity to its increasingly congested broadband network.  In Dec. 16 regulatory filings with the Federal Communications Commission, SpaceX said it “anticipates that it will

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Traffic Jam: Chinese Academics Find Starlink Satellites Routinely Break Space Safety Rules

By Fantine Gardiner, Published by Sputnik News, 29 November 2022 Elon Musk has laid out plans to launch tens of thousands of small satellites into orbit to facilitate the Starlink global high-speed internet service, but the proposal has raised eyebrows of many space-faring countries, including the US military. A study

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Satellite Constellations Could Harm the Environment, New Watchdog Report Says

By Jonathan O'Callaghan, Published by Scientific American, 24 November 2022 Elon Musk’s Starlink and other satellite sources of light pollution and orbital debris should face an environmental review, the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds Do people have a right to an unobstructed view of the heavens? For most of human

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Ukraine suffered a comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues

By Alex Marquardt, Published by CNN, 7 November 2022 Washington CNN  — Ukraine’s fears that its troops  may lose access to Elon Musk’s crucial Starlink internet service deepened in the past week after 1,300 of the military’s satellite units went offline, according to two sources familiar with the outage. The small,

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Chinese military scientists simulated a nuclear blast in space to knock out satellite networks like Starlink

By Stephen Chen, Published by Business Insider, 28 October 2022 A nuclear blast in near space could create a radioactive cloud over an area as big as New York state, crippling or destroying satellites in near-Earth orbit, according to a new computer simulation conducted by a team of Chinese military

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