The idea of waging war in orbit is no longer a figment of science fiction. As satellite technologies and launch capabilities have rapidly advanced, military powers increasingly see…
Read more What Would the First Week of World War III Look Like in Space?Share Russia has launched a high-stakes campaign to intercept and shadow critical European satellites. Security officials have confirmed that Russian spacecraft are targeting the communications of at least…
Read more Russian spacecraft intercept key European satellites – Tech DigestThe Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX’s request to deploy an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, allowing the company to launch 15,000 in all. It has also allowed…
Read more SpaceX can deploy 7,500 more Starlink Gen2 satellites with FCC approvalAn Earth-orbiting NASA telescope is slowly falling out of the sky, with a 90% chance of uncontrolled reentry by the end of 2026. To avoid this risk and…
Read more A NASA Space Telescope Is Falling Out of the Sky. Can This Startup Save it?A California startup’s plan to launch thousands of mirrors into orbit has caused quite a stir among astronomers and wildlife experts. The company, Reflect Orbital, aims to maximize…
Read more California Startup Wants to Launch 4,000 Mirrors to Orbit. Scientists Are AlarmedZoë Schiffer: Yeah, I mean, I was talking to someone before these recent layoffs who’d worked at the CDC previously and had been pretty involved in efforts to…
Read more WIRED Roundup: Satellites Data Leak, Cybertrucks, Politicized Federal WorkersThe weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field, a region over the South Atlantic where the field’s strength is significantly reduced compared to its surrounding area, has grown by…
Read more Something Weird Is Happening to Earth’s Magnetic FieldThat suggests anyone could set up similar hardware somewhere else in the world and likely obtain their own collection of sensitive information. After all, the researchers restricted their…
Read more Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate DataAstroscale is a 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair winner for developing a satellite designed to rendezvous with space junk, with the goal of capturing it and guiding it toward…
Read more Gizmodo Science Fair: A Spacecraft That Hunts Down Space JunkWhen the suit didn’t produce instant results, Musk went jingoistic. A few months earlier, in February 2014, Russia had invaded Ukraine, illegally annexing the Crimean Peninsula and triggering…
Read more Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him?SpaceX’s has been partnering with mobile carriers like T-Mobile to offer its satellite internet service Starlink to extend the reach of cell networks. But, according to a report…
Read more Everyone Thinks Elon Musk is Going to Build a SpaceX Mobile NetworkThe carbon dioxide plume, the first shared by GHGSat, was detected from a power-generating station, with an estimated rate of 12Mt of CO2 per year. BAKU, Azerbaijan, November…
Read more GHGSat Unveils Carbon Dioxide Plume Images From Vanguard, the World’s First Commercial Satellite That Pinpoints CO2 to Individual FacilitiesThis sharp growth will allow GHGSat’s pioneering constellation—already the world’s largest collection of satellites dedicated to monitoring greenhouse gases—to revisit industrial sites to detect methane emissions on a daily…
Read more GHGSat Announces Rapid Expansion, Near-Doubling Its Fleet of Methane Emissions-Monitoring Satellites by 2026SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched on Thursday, carrying another batch of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The SpaceX Starlink 6-77 mission, which deployed 23 satellites, lifted…
Read more SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink mission finally launches after failed attempts“Having the ability to reach out to friends or family allows our sailors the opportunity to decompress for a few minutes, and that in turn allows them to…
Read more The US Navy Is Going All In on StarlinkSatellites go through a lot. As they hurtle around our planet at up to 17,000 miles an hour they must cope with the extreme vacuum of space and…
Read more This Gargantuan Lab Simulates Blasting Satellites Into SpaceTysons, Virginia-based satellite operator Intelsat has agreed to be acquired by Luxembourg-based satellite company SES SA for $3.1 billon. Tysons, Virginia-based satellite operator Intelsat has agreed to be…
Read more Tysons-based Intelsat to be acquired for $3.1 billion – WTOP NewsThe Victus Haze mission is more complicated than Victus Nox, involving two prime contractors, two spacecraft, and two rocket launches from different spaceports, all timed to occur with…
Read more Space Force Is Planning a Military Exercise in OrbitSpaceX announced today that it will be sending some 100 Starlink satellites to an early retirement after a flaw was identified that could make them a worry later…
Read more SpaceX will deorbit 100 Starlink satellites with unidentified flaw | TechCrunchA Chinese rocket launched a group of communications satellites produced by one of the country’s largest carmakers, boosting the nation’s efforts to catch up in low-Earth orbit —…
Read more A top Chinese carmaker is launching satellites into low-Earth orbit for real-time communication anywhere—giving Elon Musk’s SpaceX some company
