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It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a Starlink satellite.” That was the refrain ringing around social media as sky watchers ...
SpaceX's Starlink satellites now make up 40% of reentering satellite debris. But is Elon Musk's space company the worst polluter of Earth's upper atmosphere?
"Some satellites were detected emitting in bands where no signals are supposed to be present at all, such as the 703 ...
Six percent of Starlink’s LEO constellation burns in upper atmosphere, releasing irreversible heavy metal pollution ...
As they transit above SKA-Low, Starlink satellites release radio emissions through multiple protected bands. In a pre-print of their study, the SKA-Low team reports 112,534 intrusions of Starlink ...
When SpaceX was negotiating a deal with the Bahamas last year to allow its Falcon 9 rocket boosters to land within the island ...
The Starlink project … has filed for plans to put in place some 40,000 satellites in low Earth orbit." Most of the non-SpaceX projects are private companies, too.
Curtin University researchers have undertaken the world's biggest survey of low-frequency satellite radio emissions, finding ...
Rocket launches have been, for decades, few and far between. Their pollution was something on the minds of many (with some strategies to mitigate it already in place, like for Ariane 6), but there ...
Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm the ozone layer ...
Vantablack 310 completely ending light pollution from satellites would be a good thing, but it isn't the only form of pollution caused by Starlink satellites.