22 April 2020
SpaceX seeks permission to lower the orbit of all its first-gen Starlink satellites
...on Friday (17th April) Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm has requested to relocate the remaining 2824 of the 4,400 Starlink network previously authorised to operate at altitudes from 1,110 kilometres (km) to 1,325 kilometres “down to altitudes ranging from 540...
29 December 2021
China complains to UN after space station endures 'close encounters' with Starlink satellites
...avoidance control on 1 July and 21 October 2021, respectively. 1. The first collision avoidance As from 19 April 2020, the Starlink-1095 satellite had been travelling stably in orbit at an average altitude of around 555 km. Between 16 May and 24 June...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
... kilometres (280 miles). "Successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed!" the company said on its official Twitter...many as 1,140 satellites yet to be deployed in the Starlink constellation, one could argue that the skies above our planet...
16 October 2019
SpaceX files request to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites
... to those spectrum rights. Having already launched 60 of its Starlink satellites in one go earlier this year, launching a few ...voiced its concern about the risk that SpaceX's Starlink and other planned extensive satellite constellations in LEO would...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
...have been authorised (to some degree) by the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) say the Italian team; SpaceX’s Starlink project. Satellites in this initial constellation are expected to be visible after sunset and before dawn with brightnesses...
04 September 2019
A near miss as ESA and SpaceX satellites nearly collide
... the probability increased to 1.69e-3 (or more than 1 in 10k) but a bug in our on-call paging system prevented the Starlink operator from seeing the follow on correspondence on this probability increase — SpaceX is still investigating the issue and...
