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A Russian satellite caught shadowing a US spy satellite earlier this year launched a mysterious space weapon, US Space Command says
The Russian satellite launched a mysterious projectile during the test, which mimicked a similar te…
Ryan Pickrell
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US says Russia 'recklessly' destroyed a satellite with a missile, creating debris that could threaten the International Space Station
The test created 1,500 larger, trackable pieces of debris and hundreds of thousands of smaller piec…
Ryan Pickrell
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Mission Shakti and anti-satellite weapons: India’s space developments you need to know about
An External Ministry Statement said, "The capability achieved through the A-SAT test provides …
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Elon Musk just shared the first images of new SpaceX satellites that could change the internet
An announcer said during SpaceX's live webcast that the company couldn't show the deployment of the…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX says its Starlink satellite internet can download 100 megabits per second, and 'space lasers' transfer data between satellites
SpaceX's private beta tests are revealing Starlink satellite internet to be quite fast, according t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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India's test of its anti-satellite weapon may have weakened its fight against dangerous space debris
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, just announced the successful test of India’s anti-satellite…
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Pentagon defends India's ASAT test in front US military oversight committee
India maintains that it did not violate any international laws in conducting its sat…
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US satellites could face threat from Russia and China's 'unfriendly' space behavior, warn defense analysts
Russia and China are working on things that could be used to disable US satellites, raising alarms …
Ella Sherman
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Elon Musk says Starlink satellites have had to dodge debris from Russia's anti-satellite missile test
Russia blasted one of its satellites with a missile on November 15, creating new debris in orbit an…
Jake Epstein,Morgan McFall-Jo…
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India's anti-satellite missile test may have created 6,500 eraser-size pieces of space junk near Earth, according to a new simulation
India's Defence Research and Development Organization downplayed that risk, telling Reuters that th…
Dave Mosher
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Space debris from a Russian missile test could disrupt Elon Musk's Starlink project to beam the internet from orbit
As the debris from the anti-satellite test spreads around the world, it could knock some of the sat…
Marianne Guenot
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China is taking its ‘all-weather ally’ Pakistan to space
The agreement, which was signed on the sidelines of the second Belt and Road summit a few days a…
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India's anti-satellite missile test just moved humanity closer to a space-junk nightmare scenario
After a Chinese missile armed with a "kinetic kill vehicle" (essentially a giant bullet-like slug) …
Dave Mosher
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The International Space Station swerved to avoid colliding with shrapnel from a Russian anti-satellite missile test
Debris from an anti-satellite test Russia conducted late last year threatened to collide with the I…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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US, Russia and China with space debris in the thousands are complaining about 49 pieces from India's A-SAT test
Yet, India's debris is mere fraction of the debris left behind in space by other nations aro…
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A Russian missile strike put 1,500 pieces of large space junk in orbit. Even debris as big as a baseball could kill astronauts.
The debris from a Russian missile test "risks astronauts' lives" and "the interests of all nations,…
Marianne Guenot
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India beats its own record to build the world’s lightest satellite, NASA to launch it soon
The four students used locally sourced materials and though the inception of the satellite b…
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Elon Musk's SpaceX is about to launch the first of 11,925 internet satellites - more than all spacecraft that orbit Earth today
"We're really talking about something which is, in the long term, like rebuilding the internet in s…