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
An image of the NGC 5353/4 galaxy group made with a telescope at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, USA on the night of Saturday 25 May 2019. The diagonal lines running across the image are trails of reflected light left by Starlink satellites as they passed through the telescope’s field of
The Starlink system By Sandra V, Published by Union Rayo, 18 November 2025 Starlink has become a very popular name thanks to its satellites that promise faster internet connection in the entire world. However, now, scientists from several countries are concerned about these satellites causing an invisible issue that can
SpaceX's Starshield satellites are covert versions of the company's Starlink spacecraft operated by U.S. agencies. This 2023 image shows a batch of Starlink satellites just before they were released into low Earth orbit. (Image credit: SpaceX) By Harry Baker, Published by Live Science, 18 November 2025 An amateur astronomer has
Image: xnk/Shutterstock By Michael Bizzaco, Published by BGR, 15 November 2025 What do you get when you cross exceptional amounts of solar activity with a fleet of low-Earth orbiting satellites? A crash course in how the sun is always the victor. Since SpaceX first launched the Starlink program back in
By Jon Brodkin, Published by Ars technica, 14 November 2025 It seems US didn’t coordinate Starshield’s unusual spectrum use with other countries. Image of a Starshield satellite from SpaceX's website. Credit: SpaceX About 170 Starshield satellites built by SpaceX for the US government’s National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have been sending
