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SpaceX has denied OneWeb's claim that their satellites almost collided - and accused it of deliberately misleading the press
Elon Musk's company SpaceX said it had worked with OneWeb to avoid a satellite collision and that i…
Grace Dean
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A dead NASA space telescope and an old Air Force satellite have a 1-in-10 chance of colliding over Pittsburgh on Wednesday, and people on the ground may see it
If the space-junk problem gets extreme, a disastrous chain of collisions could spiral out of contro…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Chinese satellite seems to have collided with a piece of a Russian rocket in March - the first big space crash in a decade
A Chinese satellite mysteriously broke apart earlier this year. A Harvard astronomer realized that …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body just avoided colliding in space and exploding into dangerous debris
In a collision, the satellites would have exploded into a cloud of dangerous, high-speed debris — a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A dead Russian spacecraft almost collided with a NASA satellite. The crash could have sent 7,500 bits of debris rocketing around Earth.
A dead Russian spacecraft almost crashed into a NASA satellite. The collision would have sent debri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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NASA flags concerns about overcrowding, collisions as Elon Musk plans to send another 30,000 SpaceX satellites into orbit
NASA questioned SpaceX's claim that there's "zero risk" of a Starlink satellite colliding with larg…
Huileng Tan
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Everything we know about Elon Musk's Starlink satellites and future internet plans
After Elon Musk's first batch of Starlink satellites launched via SpaceX into Earth's lower orbit, …
Grace Kay
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Elon Musk's SpaceX is close to winning FCC approval to fly more than 4,000 Starlink satellites in a lower orbit. But rivals say it could increase collision risks.
Elon Musk's company SpaceX is seeking regulatory permission to fly over 4,000 satellites at the sam…
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX may want to launch 42,000 internet satellites - about 5 times more spacecraft than humanity has ever flown
That's according to Caleb Henry at Space News, who on Tuesday wrote that SpaceX, founded by tech mo…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX responds to NASA's concerns over Starlink collisions in outer space: 'The reliability of the satellite network is currently higher than 99%'
SpaceX plans to create a megaconstellation of over 42,000 Starlink satellites and released 46 more …
Grace Kay
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The European Space Agency says it had to dodge a SpaceX satellite because the company wouldn't move it out of the way. A software bug may be to blame.
"Our Starlink team last exchanged an email with the Aeolus operations team on August 28, when the p…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites could make astronomy on Earth 'impossible' and create a space-junk nightmare, some scientists warn
"A 5% failure rate is actually better than most historical constellations, particularly for this si…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX satellites nearly collided with China's space station twice this year, sparking online criticism of Elon Musk's 'space junk'
The two incidents, on July 1 and October 21, involved satellites from SpaceX's Starlink Internet Se…
Huileng Tan
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SpaceX was approved to fly thousands more satellites at a lower orbit despite pushback from competitors
After a near-miss earlier this month, several other startups said Elon Musk's plan would increase t…
Natasha Dailey
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The US government logged 308,984 potential space-junk collisions in 2017 - and the problem could get much worse
There's a real risk that something may smash into something else up there, and it often does. Each …
Dave Mosher
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ESA satellite Sentinel-1A dodges a 'high-risk collision' from Russian space debris
"On Monday, for the first time, we performed a set of manoeuvres to avoid a high-risk collision wit…
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A magnetic spacecraft that can attract dead satellites has entered orbit - a test in a new effort to clean up space junk
Millions of bits of junk rocket around Earth faster than bullets, threatening to collide with satel…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Starlink's 'megaconstellation' of 12,000 satellites could account for 90% of near misses in orbit, scientist predicts
Once the megaconstellation reaches its intended size, it will account for nearly all close encounte…
Kumutha Ramanathan
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SpaceX and OneWeb satellites nearly crashed into each other in orbit, according to reports
The satellites of the US-based SpaceX and UK company OneWeb came dangerously close to colliding. 'R…