01 December 2021
SpaceX risks bankruptcy due to Raptor problems, says Musk
... Musk also needs Starship to deploy his next generation of Starlink broadband satellites in large numbers every two weeks. The space... can’t fly Starship, which means we then can’t fly Starlink Satellite V2 (Falcon has neither the volume *nor* the mass...
18 October 2019
Companies unite to reject SpaceX satellite plans
The recent news that Elon Musk would like to launch a further 30, 000 satellites as part of his company’s Starlink mega-constellation has provoked an outcry within the industry as satellite communication firms start lining up to complain to the ...
11 November 2019
Fourth time rocket reuse for SpaceX mission but concerns still over satellites
... it really make a big difference to the night sky or is it just a big fuss about nothing? Since the first 60 Starlink satellites were placed in orbit, Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics along with...
23 March 2020
OneWeb launches 34 more satellites amid bankruptcy concerns
...protection says a financial report by Bloomberg, as it faces stiff competition from competitors such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink megaconstellation and Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper initiative, who plan to put 40,000+ and 3236 satellites respectively...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... correlated with geomagnetic activity.” Instead, the best explanation seems to be solar radio bursts. Although it is unlikely that Starlink signals would cause a problem as they have been approved for frequencies in the GHz, it has been suggested...
26 August 2020
LEO constellations will "fundamentally change" astronomy, warns new report
...better. When SpaceX started lofting the first 60 Starlink satellites of their intended 42,000+ mega constellation ... streaks spanning the widths of astronomical images when several Starlink Satellites cross the field of view of telescopes. Instruments ...
