The age-old question of what would happen if you threw a paper airplane out of the International Space Station (ISS) has been answered in a new paper. Space around our planet is getting quite full. We ...
Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell If you had to guess how many Starlink satellites burn up in Earth's atmosphere on an average day, ...
Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are falling from the sky at an increasing rate, with one study estimating that one to two satellites are deorbiting daily.
Several satellite companies—including SpaceX, Project Kuiper, OneWeb, Telesat, and Guowang—are designing “mega-constellations ...